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Investors Protection Unit parades suspect in $450,000 gold export fraud case
The State House Investors Protection Unit and the Police Mineral Protection Unit say they are investigating a Kampala-based gold export deal that a foreign investor alleges never existed. The case follows a pattern UMT has documented before.
Sarah Nabbosa · State House Investors Protection Unit · Kampala
August 13, 2026 - negativeGovernance
Parliament's natural resources committee returns to mineral revenue sharing, and the arithmetic has not changed
The statutory split of mineral royalties between central government, local government and landowners is law. Whether districts and communities receive their share on time is a separate question, and it is once again in front of the committee.
Peter Wafula · Parliament of Uganda · Kampala
August 10, 2026 - negativeGovernance
Audit findings on royalty collection: the recurring gaps between assessment, collection and transfer
Successive public audit reporting has flagged the same weaknesses in mineral revenue administration: incomplete production returns, unreconciled assessments and transfers that cannot be traced to the production that generated them.
Isaac Okot · Office of the Auditor General · Kampala
August 8, 2026 - negativeGovernance
Uganda's refineries run largely on regional feed, and that is a strategic vulnerability
Domestic refining capacity comfortably exceeds domestic mine output. The gap is filled by metal from neighbouring countries, with all the due-diligence exposure that carries.
Sarah Nabbosa · Licensed gold refineries · Kampala, Entebbe
May 14, 2026 - positiveGovernance
The public mining cadastre is changing how licence disputes are argued in Uganda
Anyone can now check who holds what and where. District officials, journalists and miners are using it, and it is exposing overlapping and dormant tenements.
Timothy Waiswa · Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines · Kampala
April 20, 2026