Karoli Ssemogerere
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Past articles by Karoli:
How climate change is portending worse, armed conflict and insecurity
National Water and other water authorities are struggling to handle pressure on lower water levels everywhere, boosting a private well sinking industry that will in the long term make fresh water... → Read More
Africa’s largest democracy votes as world’s largest democracy falters
Consumers globally are pinching their pennies waiting to see if inflationary tendencies come under control → Read More
Are our commercial banks overwhelmed by digital age?
There was a time when the industry flagship, Stanbic’s enterprise online platform was predictably off every Saturday rendering it impossible to complete transactions → Read More
The other NSSF: A more nuanced version
In Uganda, we live life a little, carefully and quietly. That’s how we have safely excluded ourselves from the middle income and other prosperity dreams → Read More
Correcting past mistakes, task of the new Minister of Finance and Central Bank Governor?
Germany, one of the last big diesel markets, has finally embraced full electric vehicles, and yes the Mercedes Benz will move without the roar in its belly → Read More
NSSF’s biggest risk is falling off the cliff, and the ravine is getting close
Umeme is attempting to deliver power from power lines being vandalized for steel products by the jua kali sector → Read More
Roads start to crumble in end year rain mirage
A country’s transport inventory also counts airports, airfields and finally transit terminals which in the mega-cities combine one or more of these forms of transport → Read More
Freedom City, our mall ends 2022 in a crowd crash leaving many dead
It seems our Freedom City, a vast expanse of concrete and its short but illustrious story became a graveyard again when the crush of the New Year’s crowd ran out to watch Fireworks → Read More
Challenges ahead in 2023
A chilly winter and skyrocketing gas prices have pushed inflation above 10 percent. → Read More
Christmas is here, annus horribilis
Earlier this month on a visit to Tanzania, my legislative drafting classmate whispered to me, there was a cancer epidemic raging in the lake region → Read More
Tanzania: The vibe of being in a big country
Every morning, planeloads of Tanzanians board aircraft heading for different corners of the country → Read More
Is East Africa finally coming to terms with its biggest resource?
We routinely abuse the President, politicians or listen to time-wasting tirades on Talk Radio but are reluctant to dabble in technical details, systematic argument and cause and effect definition... → Read More
The patriarch rests finally in the country he loved and gave all, we celebrate his life
In my sub-clan, my father was an Earl of the Court, the favoured children of their great ancestor, Ssebwana Ggere who once reigned as a great chief in the Kingdom of Buganda in the inter-regnum... → Read More
Climate hell, fiscal cliff, other expressions dominate as the year 2022 comes to a close
The minister is asking for a 10 year instrument with a four- year grace period to finance shortfalls in the 2022/2023 financial year → Read More
Uganda starts to feel stress of food insecurity
While maize performed very well in the first quarter, it hasn’t in the second and third quarters on account of intermittent rains → Read More
Global finances in distress, winter of discontent builds up as Uganda falters in Ebola response
Attention will once again be on the United States’ midterm election due next Tuesday → Read More
Climate change makes front-line for the economy bottom-line
Most of the domestic coffee planting campaigns focus on the first seven years of production, where the coffee bush is young, lush, and vibrant → Read More
Managing fewer resources should be priority
In Uganda, moderate rather than drastic focused on key foreign exchange earners, coffee, tourism, and services → Read More
EU resolution on EACOP unfurls global dimension of big oil, environment politics
The oil industry everywhere is associated with catastrophic governance problems, corruption, political dreadlock and environmental challenges → Read More
The clash of the three legacies of Ben Kiwanuka
The Uganda of today, 60 years after independence is in a period of rapid change, demographic transformation and a vibrant new social identity → Read More