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Tanzania is now Africa’s second-largest raw tobacco producer after Zimbabwe, according to the country’s agriculture minister Hussein Bashe and plans are underway to increase production and leaf processing capacity by encouraging more small-scale farmers to engage in contractual tobacco commercial farming.…

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) ambitious plans to reform its universities and higher education system are progressing steadily, although faced with challenges. HE administrators and government officials are now working through the requirements of the new system having received a December 2022 decree establishing the grade designations of graduates for the new License-Master-Doctorate (LMD) system.…

Uganda may have been removed from the FATF grey list this past February (2024), but its FIU has told MLB it knows more AML, CFT and CFP work is ahead. The east African country had been grey listed since 2020. After de-listing, FATF said in a communiqué it “welcomes Uganda’s significant progress in improving its AML/CFT regime”.…

University students, politicians and human rights activists in Uganda have condemned the alleged rape, including sodomisation, of 20 university students recently arrested over demonstrating against alleged rampant corruption in the country.
They are collectively calling on Uganda’s government and judicial authorities to thoroughly investigate the allegations that female and male students were raped by police officers while held in police cells.…

Despite efforts by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and government to crack down on illegal universities and institutes of higher learning, some institutions continue to operate illegally in Uganda, leaving students in limbo.

Uganda’s parliament has passed laws to strengthen the regulation of universities, regularly updating the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act https://policies.mak.ac.ug/sites/default/files/policies/001_UNIVERSITIES_%20AND_OTHER_TERTIARY_INSTITUTIONS_ACT.pdf…

Zambia’s annual tobacco production is expected to drop by 10% to 42.3 million kg in 2024 from an annual peak production of 47 million kg produced last year (2023), according to Phil Daka, chairperson at the Tobacco Board of Zambia (TBZ).…

The European Parliament has pushed the European Commission into a politically awkward position by refusing to follow FATF’s lead in removing the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Gibraltar and Panama from the European Union (EU) AML blacklist. MEPs yesterday (Tuesday April 23) voted to block a Commission delegated act stating these jurisdictions were no longer considered ‘high-risk third countries’ as regards AML.…

The CEO of an expanding Ethiopian sportswear company has told WTiN how it has combined tech investments with a creative commercial strategy to become a pan-African company that provides quality and affordable sportswear to African consumers.

Samuel Mekonnen, also the co-founder of Gofere, which was launched in 2016, has succeeded in tapping a growing regional market that used to be dominated by cheap, sub-standard products bought mainly from China.…

Uganda has thousands of refugee students in its public and private universities, plus other higher education institutions, with numbers increasing to 15,000 today, says the country’s ministry of education and sports. Over time those students have had impacts on the institutions where they study, the surrounding environment and the country at large.…

Universities and other institutions of higher learning in Uganda are being harmed by a glut of sports betting addiction that is forcing thousands of learners out of their studies.

The worst hit is the oldest and most prestigious university in the country, Makerere University, which has more than 35,000 students.…