Belt and Road Initiative

Just Build Kampala Roads! Lessons from China’s Transport System

Just Build Kampala Roads! Lessons from China’s Transport System

Recently, I set out to study the economic analysis of China’s transport system. Many writers I read considered the impact of transportation infrastructure on China’s economy with shared criticisms. One of the major criticisms I found taxed against China’s transport system was that although it comprises a wide network of roads, railways, and airports across […]

Improved Technology Is Vital in Answering Uganda and Africa’s Energy  Dilemma 

Improved Technology Is Vital in Answering Uganda and Africa’s Energy  Dilemma 

The World Bank estimates that one billion people – of which a big fraction is in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – have no access to electricity! Relatedly, the African Development Bank (ADB)  explains that Sub-Saharan Africa cannot realise its development targets with current shortage of electricity stressing that the region needs USD 130-170 billion […]

Smart Urban Planning: Benchmarking China to Solve Kampala’s Traffic Crisis

Smart Urban Planning: Benchmarking China to Solve Kampala’s Traffic Crisis

It is estimated that 64% of Uganda’s GDP and 75% of total national revenue collection comes from the Kampala Metropolitan area. To maintain and increase this level of productivity, Kampala needs to have a smooth flow of traffic on good roads. As factors currently stand, millions of the country’s most productive population segment lose productive […]

Smart Urban Planning: Benchmarking China to Solve Kampala’s Traffic Crisis

It is estimated that 64% of Uganda’s GDP and 75% of total national revenue collection comes from the Kampala Metropolitan area. To maintain and increase this level of productivity, Kampala needs to have a smooth flow of traffic on good roads. As factors currently stand, millions of the country’s most productive population segment lose productive […]

CCCC’s Environment, social and Governance Report; Tightening the Knot of Uganda-China Economic Cooperation

CCCC’s Environment, social and Governance Report; Tightening the Knot of Uganda-China Economic Cooperation

The China Communications Construction Company officially launched its 2023-24 ESG report on October 17th 2024 at Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi. The event was graced by a number of key guests from the corporate world and Governments of both countries. China at the highest level was represented by his Excellency Ambassador Zhang Li Zhong while Uganda […]

Xi Jinping’s Call for a Win-Win Partnerships Should Be The Basis For Modern Diplomacy

Xi Jinping’s Call for a Win-Win Partnerships Should Be The Basis For Modern Diplomacy

The speech by His Excellence Xi Jinping as the keynote address during the just concluded opening of the 9th FOCAC Ministerial Conference was timely. The contents came at a time when the world is in times fragile relations among countries. The globalisation agenda in the early stages of the FOCAC’s formation were equally timely because […]