Oct 11, 2019
It is midday at the Laroo stone quarry about 5Km from Gulu town. Hundreds of locals robotically pound away at rocks using small hammers. The huge rocks have to be manually broken into smaller pieces…
Oct 10, 2019
In 2017, under a directive of Uganda’s President Museveni, the Police Minerals Protection Unit (PMPU) was established. At the time, the Unit was created to respond to a growing concern that the…
Sep 03, 2019
Rwanda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zimbabwe that will see the two countries cooperating and exchanging experiences from the extractive industries to develop their respective…
Aug 05, 2019
Despite being central to Uganda’s mining industry, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) in Uganda has for years been neglected by authorities. Until recently, the ASM sub-sector was not even duly…
Uganda’s gold exports hit $514 million last year raising excitement that majority of the players in the gold mining business, who are Artisanal and Small Scale Miners, are reaping big. However, this…
Deep inside Rwemizi village in Ruhama Parish, Ntungamo district a group of miners have resolved to keep the tin they mine until they are able to get a processing centre to add value and be able to…
