Unlocking Regional Liquidity: Emerging Opportunities in East Africa’s Public and Private Capital Markets
This report examines the current state and prospects of public and private capital markets in East Africa. It highlights the historical development of the markets in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, analyses their performance and identifies key trends hampering their continued growth.
Crude Ambitions: The Financing Hurdles Facing East Africa’s Crude Oil Pipeline
In 2006, Uganda found significant natural reserves near the country’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in the form of expansive crude oil deposits. In a bid to achieve the government’s aim of first oil output in 2025, TotalEnergies, CNOOC, along with the Ugandan and Tanzanian governments, are collaborating on a significant infrastructure project - the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Powering Uganda’s Future: The Untapped Potential of Mini Grids to Transform Electricity Access
This report is about the energy poverty hampering Uganda’s socioeconomic development. It explores the potential of mini-grids in Uganda, examining various aspects of mini-grids including the challenges and economic implications surrounding their development and contribution to rural electrification.
The Delicate Dance of Tech Titans and Sovereign States: The Geopolitical Stakes Surrounding Data Ownership in Africa
In 2017, Kenya would go on to conduct what would become one of its most hotly contested elections to date, against the backdrop of the Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2016. Facebook, present-day Meta, would play a complicit hand in undermining this young democracy’s sovereignty via the exploitation of the country's data.
