Moses Byaruhanga
Moses Byaruhanga reports from Kasese, Buhweju and Hima on copper, cobalt and cement-sector minerals, and on vocational training pipelines linked to industrial employers.
Based in Fort Portal, Uganda
- Kilembe and Kasese
- Cement and industrial minerals
- Vocational training
Reporting by Moses Byaruhanga
- Investment · August 6, 2026
South west tin and tungsten mines reopen under cost pressure
Firmer tin and tungsten prices have brought medium-scale underground operations in the south west back into production. Grid reliability and the road to the Ruti smelter still decide whether the ore is worth lifting.
- Regulation · August 2, 2026
Gold mining halted at Kayungwe and Kinkiizi
On the ground, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has ordered a stop to gold mining at Kayungwe and Kinkiizi in Kanungu District, extending several weeks of enforcement against unlicensed workings in western Uganda.
- Investment · July 24, 2026
Muko iron ore and the steel question
With around 260 million tonnes of proven reserves across Muko, Bukusu and Sukulu, Uganda has the ore. Smelting economics depend on electricity tariffs and haulage.
- Industrial minerals · July 6, 2026
Cement demand pushes limestone quarrying harder
Construction across the region has lifted clinker output, and with it dust, blasting and haulage disputes in host sub-counties.
- Copper & cobalt · June 28, 2026
Kilembe revival advances with state participation
Rehabilitation of the flooded Kasese workings is the precondition for everything else. State participation clarifies ownership after years of contested concessions.
- Copper & cobalt · June 18, 2025
Kilembe Mines concession advances at last
Government negotiators confirmed material progress in 2025 on a new concession for the Kilembe copper-cobalt complex in Kasese, ending a decade of stop-start talks.
- Copper & cobalt · November 8, 2023
Kasese Cobalt Company revival in view
Negotiations to revive the Kasese Cobalt Company complex have advanced through 2023, with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development pointing to firm international interest in the tailings and pyrite stockpile resource.
- Copper & cobalt · April 4, 2023
Kilembe Mines revival still stalled
Now, a decade after Tibet-Hima's concession collapsed, Kilembe Mines in Kasese remains dormant, and the district's economic planners are still waiting for a credible partner to bring the copper-cobalt complex back to life.
- Skills · March 30, 2023
Hima Cement expands Kasese skills training
Hima Cement's vocational training partnership with Kasese technical institutes is producing electricians, welders and heavy-plant operators who are being absorbed by the plant and by contractors across the region.