Lately, Uganda keeps appearing in international headlines. Usually it is about politics, security, or some geopolitical something. Comment — Lately, Uganda keeps appearing in international headlines. Usually it is about politics, security, or some geopolitical something. That is how the world often meets us. But if you walk around the country itself, the story feels different. Recently, I attended a forum where a joint British and Indian business delegation were sharing their impressions after visiting Uganda. One of them summed it up rather simply: "What we see about Uganda in the news and what we have experienced here are two completely different things." That remark stayed with me. It captured, in one sentence, the gap between Uganda as it is reported and Uga Of course, like many other
Lately, Uganda keeps appearing in international headlines. Usually it is about politics, security, or some geopolitical something. Comment — Lately, Uganda keeps appearing in international headlines. Usually it is about politics, security, or some geopolitical something. That is how the world often meets us. But if you walk around the country itself, the story feels different. Recently, I attended a forum where a joint British and Indian business delegation were sharing their impressions after visiting Uganda. One of them summed it up rather simply: "What we see about Uganda in the news and what we have experienced here are two completely different things." That remark stayed with me. It captured, in one sentence, the gap between Uganda as it is reported and Uga Of course, like many other countries, Uganda is one of those places where challenges never quite disappear, but neither does progress. While the politics sometimes get noisy, other things continue happening beneath the surface. Exports expand. Regional influence grows. And the population, which is young, energetic and endlessly entrepreneurial, keeps pushing forward. I will give you one statistic that rarely makes the headlines. In 1995, Uganda's exports were about 550 million dollars. Today they are roughly 11.2 billion dollars. That is not a small ju