Sarah Nabbosa
Sarah Nabbosa investigates mineral supply chains, export documentation and revenue leakage in Uganda's gold trade, working with public records and customs data to test official figures against declared production.
Based in Kampala, Uganda
- Gold export audits
- Revenue transparency
- Supply-chain due diligence
Reporting by Sarah Nabbosa
- Regulation · August 14, 2026
Border checks tighten on mineral transit
Customs and DGSM are matching mineral consignments to licence records at the eastern border posts. Traders complain of delays; the point is to see which loads have no paperwork at all.
- Governance · August 13, 2026
SHIPU probe into a $450,000 gold export fraud
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.
- Economy · August 9, 2026
How to read Uganda's mineral export figures
Gold dominates Uganda's export tables, but much of that gold was never mined here. A reader's guide to the official statistics, and to the three adjustments needed before any conclusion is drawn from them.
- Governance · August 8, 2026
Audit findings on royalty collection
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.
- Policy · August 6, 2026
Uganda's gold fraud machine, in three layers
Now, a Kampala court case over $1.5 million in gold that never shipped has reopened scrutiny of Uganda's unlicensed gold trade, where security companies pose as refineries and a the usual cast of fixers separates foreign investors from their money.
- Policy · April 18, 2026
Uganda tightens gold export audit and transit reporting
The Uganda Revenue Authority and the Ministry of Energy have introduced a stricter export audit regime that requires refiners to distinguish domestically mined gold from imported and transit bullion, a long-standing weak point in the country's mineral statistics.