This catalogue of players in Uganda’s extractive sector includes government entities, businesses, NGOs, and academic institutions. The catalogue, which doesn’t claim to be exhaustive, will be regularly updated for accuracy. Extractive Sector Actors
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Highlights Mining and Minerals Act, 2021, repeals the Mining Act, 2003. Introduces a competitive licensing regime for brownfields (existing mining projects) and retains first come, first served model for greenfields (new mining projects). A model mining agreement for large-scale mining businesses is introduced. Prospecting, exploration, and retention licences are retained, and the location licence is […]
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The last decade had seen some notable improvements in our journalism and today’s journalists are, in many ways, better trained than those before them. However a combination of structural and professional challenges continued to impede the potential of Ugandan or even the region’s media to inform and engage the public on the critical issues of […]
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WHAT? Training of mid-career journalists on covering mining in Uganda. WHEN? Monday 10—Friday 14 October 2016 WHERE? African Centre for Media Excellence, Kampala WHO? Mid-career (with minimum experience of three years in the newsroom) journalists already covering mining or are interested in reporting the sector. Only 20 places are available. FACILITATORS: Experts from Directorate of […]
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