UKAIS 2026 Post-Summit Report Now Available

The 16th Edition UK–Africa Investment Summit Report Is Ready to Download

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UKAIS 2026 Post-Summit Report | From Access to Production: What London Delivered…

UKAIS 2026 Post-Summit Report Now Available

UKAIS 2026 Post-Summit Report Now Available

UKAIS 2026 Post-Summit Report | From Access to Production: What London Delivered…

Anand Raj Gopal Challenges African Banks: Who Carries Construction Risk Before Private Capital Invests?

Anand Raj Gopal Challenges African Banks: Who Carries Construction…

Anand Raj Gopal Challenges African Banks: Who Carries Construction Risk Before Private…

Who Carries Construction Risk? Financing Africa’s Critical Minerals, Digital Inclusion and AI Infrastructure

Who Carries Construction Risk? Financing Africa’s Critical Minerals, Digital…

Who carries construction risk? UKAIS 2026 examined guarantees, sponsor equity, blended finance,…

UKAIS 2026 in Review: What London Delivered and What Must Move Next

UKAIS 2026 in Review: What London Delivered and What…

The 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit recorded 629 registrations from 448 organisations across…

Uganda Mining Investment: Repatriation, State Equity, Land and Data

Uganda Mining Investment: Repatriation, State Equity, Land and Data

Investors can take their returns out of Uganda, the State can co-invest…

Youngsik Ahn, Citi: What a Global Bank Tests Before It Finances an African Project

Youngsik Ahn, Citi: What a Global Bank Tests Before…

A global bank’s first question on an African project is how far…

Youngsik Ahn, Citi: Why Banks Want Contractors In Early on Export Credit Projects

Youngsik Ahn, Citi: Why Banks Want Contractors In Early…

Contractors who want export credit backed finance should bring the bank in…

Willy Mutenza: Making Britain Uganda’s Leading Trading Partner Again

Willy Mutenza: Making Britain Uganda’s Leading Trading Partner Again

Willy Mutenza opened the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit with a clear ambition.…

Mihir K. Patel and Shehla Hasan: What Indian Business Needs Before Investing in Africa

Mihir K. Patel and Shehla Hasan: What Indian Business…

Indian industry told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit what it needs before…

The UK Offer to Africa: Export Finance, a £1.3 Billion Uganda Portfolio and a Warning Against Moving Too Slowly

The UK Offer to Africa: Export Finance, a £1.3…

The UK told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that its investment portfolio…

Hon. Rikki Verma: Solar Irrigation Across 450 Sites Shows What UK Export Finance Can Do

Hon. Rikki Verma: Solar Irrigation Across 450 Sites Shows…

Hon. Rikki Verma told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that UK Export…

Where Can Local Companies in Uganda Find Project Funding?

Where Can Local Companies in Uganda Find Project Funding?

A delegate told the minerals panel at the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit…

Who Carries Construction Risk in Uganda? Bank of Uganda and Absa on Digital Finance and Layered Funding

Who Carries Construction Risk in Uganda? Bank of Uganda…

A private debt investor asked how construction and maturity risk are reduced…

Mobile Money Took Uganda From 8% Banked to 81%, and Blended Finance Covers Construction Risk

Mobile Money Took Uganda From 8% Banked to 81%,…

Uganda’s banked population has risen from about 8% in 2013 to 81%…

Uganda Mining: State Equity, Geological Data and Repatriation Answered

Uganda Mining: State Equity, Geological Data and Repatriation Answered

Will the state take equity, can investors get the geological data, and…

Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba: Uganda Offers Stability and Asks for Patient Capital

Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba: Uganda Offers Stability and Asks for…

Uganda offers stability, an open capital account and high yields. What it…

Uganda’s Prime Minister at UKAIS 2026: Make It in Uganda, Sell It Across Africa

Uganda’s Prime Minister at UKAIS 2026: Make It in…

Uganda sent its Prime Minister to London with one message for investors,…

Nick Oliver: Link Projects Along Corridors and Funders Will Follow

Nick Oliver: Link Projects Along Corridors and Funders Will…

Single infrastructure projects struggle to find finance. Linked along a corridor, they…

Mike Ralston: One Flagship Graphite Mine Would Put Uganda on the Investment Map

Mike Ralston: One Flagship Graphite Mine Would Put Uganda…

One Ugandan graphite project in production would change how investors see the…

Mandulis Energy and Oxford College of Education Group: 100 Learners in Uganda From Rural Power

Mandulis Energy and Oxford College of Education Group: 100…

Oxford College of Education Group will sponsor 100 learners in Uganda under…

Louis Arinaitwe: Explored Projects and Available Data Bring London Capital to Ugandan Mining

Louis Arinaitwe: Explored Projects and Available Data Bring London…

UK capital will move into Ugandan mining when projects have been explored…

Lord Uday Nagaraju: Africa Should Own the Value AI Creates, Not Only Adopt the Technology

Lord Uday Nagaraju: Africa Should Own the Value AI…

Africa should stop asking how to adopt artificial intelligence and start asking…

Lord Raval OBE: Guarantees Can Close the Gap Between Perceived and Actual Risk in Uganda

Lord Raval OBE: Guarantees Can Close the Gap Between…

Perceived risk often exceeds actual risk, and perception sets the price of…

Julius Kakeeto: Uganda’s Tenfold Growth Strategy Needs Twentyfold Private Credit

Julius Kakeeto: Uganda’s Tenfold Growth Strategy Needs Twentyfold Private…

Uganda’s banks say they must multiply private sector credit twentyfold to deliver…

Irene T. Kauma: Opening the 16th Summit With Five Objectives and a Room of Decision-Makers

Irene T. Kauma: Opening the 16th Summit With Five…

The 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit opened with five stated objectives and a…

Humphrey Asiimwe: Uganda’s Minerals Need Exploration, Bankable Projects and a Regional Market

Humphrey Asiimwe: Uganda’s Minerals Need Exploration, Bankable Projects and…

Uganda has 58 known minerals and 23 that are commercially viable, according…

Under-Explored, Not Under-Endowed: How Uganda Moves Minerals From Potential to Production: Hon. Shyam Jay Tanna

Under-Explored, Not Under-Endowed: How Uganda Moves Minerals From Potential…

Session 01 of the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit asked what makes a…

Ephraim Kamuntu: Uganda’s Internal Affairs Minister Gives Investors a Security Assurance

Ephraim Kamuntu: Uganda’s Internal Affairs Minister Gives Investors a…

Uganda's Minister of Internal Affairs told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that…

Uganda’s Minister Confirms Repatriation as the Minerals Panel Sets Out the Route to Production

Uganda’s Minister Confirms Repatriation as the Minerals Panel Sets…

Uganda's investment minister opened with a clear yes on taking returns out…

Uganda’s Investment Minister Confirms Mining Investors Can Repatriate Their Returns

Uganda’s Investment Minister Confirms Mining Investors Can Repatriate Their…

Uganda's investment minister told mining investors at the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit…

Hefin Rees KC: Pair Gold Track and Trace With a 99.99% Refinery

Hefin Rees KC: Pair Gold Track and Trace With…

Hefin Rees KC told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that mineral projects…

HE Nimisha Madhvani: Uganda Asks Investors to Produce and Add Value, Not Only Extract

HE Nimisha Madhvani: Uganda Asks Investors to Produce and…

Uganda's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom told the 16th UK–Africa Investment…

Khaled Mousa Abu Hassan: Jordan Proposes an Investment Platform With Africa, Starting With Pharmaceuticals

Khaled Mousa Abu Hassan: Jordan Proposes an Investment Platform…

Jordan's parliamentary lead on investment told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that…

Lisa Chesney: The Biggest Risk in Uganda Is Being Too Slow

Lisa Chesney: The Biggest Risk in Uganda Is Being…

British investors who hesitate on Uganda will lose opportunities to others. H.E.…

Alastair Long: Trade Is Not Charity, and Uganda Shows How UK Finance Works

Alastair Long: Trade Is Not Charity, and Uganda Shows…

The UK’s offer to Africa has to pay both sides. H.E. Alastair…

Uganda Offers Mining Investors Its Geological Data on Request

Uganda Offers Mining Investors Its Geological Data on Request

Exploration capital goes to countries that publish their geology. Asked for a…

Francis Magambe Byaruhanga: Allocate Infrastructure Risk to the Party That Can Manage It

Francis Magambe Byaruhanga: Allocate Infrastructure Risk to the Party…

Infrastructure projects perform when each risk sits with the party best able…

Felix Okurut: Bankable Mineral Projects Are Waiting for Investment in Uganda

Felix Okurut: Bankable Mineral Projects Are Waiting for Investment…

Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development told investors that feasibility studies…

UKAIS 2026 Opens: Bankable Projects and Britain as Uganda’s Leading Trading Partner

UKAIS 2026 Opens: Bankable Projects and Britain as Uganda’s…

The 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit opened with a plain commercial aim. Make…

Session 01 Opens: The Investment Test for Uganda’s Critical Minerals

Session 01 Opens: The Investment Test for Uganda’s Critical…

Session 01 of the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit opened with a test,…

Dr Nelson Tugume: Keeping Coffee’s Value in Uganda with a US$1.2 Billion Capital Ask

Dr Nelson Tugume: Keeping Coffee’s Value in Uganda with…

Coffee creates about 460 billion dollars of value worldwide, and Africa captures…

Dipesh J. Shah CBE: Uganda’s Edge in Data Centres and AI Needs an Investor Prospectus

Dipesh J. Shah CBE: Uganda’s Edge in Data Centres…

Uganda can connect new power-hungry facilities faster than many developed markets. Dipesh…

2026 Summit Objectives Set and Dignitaries Recognised at the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit

2026 Summit Objectives Set and Dignitaries Recognised at the…

The opening of the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit set five objectives and…

David A. Wandera: Short-Term Liquidity Cannot Fund Long-Life Assets

David A. Wandera: Short-Term Liquidity Cannot Fund Long-Life Assets

Uganda has plenty of liquidity, but most of it is short-term, and…

Can Investors Take Their Money Out of Uganda? Hon. Hajjat Amina Mukalazi

Can Investors Take Their Money Out of Uganda? Hon.…

Mining capital commits for ten to twenty years, so investors test the…

Col. Edith Nakalema: How Uganda Protects Investors from State House

Col. Edith Nakalema: How Uganda Protects Investors from State…

Investors in Uganda have a named unit, an online portal and a…

Rebecca Kadaga: A Bloc-to-Bloc UK–EAC Trade Deal and Finance for Industrial Corridors

Rebecca Kadaga: A Bloc-to-Bloc UK–EAC Trade Deal and Finance…

Uganda's First Deputy Prime Minister asked the United Kingdom to trade with…

The Late Afternoon Session: Corridors, Confidence and the Close

The Late Afternoon Session: Corridors, Confidence and the Close

The late afternoon asked how infrastructure becomes investable, how investors stay protected…

The Afternoon Session: From Minerals to Money to Machines

The Afternoon Session: From Minerals to Money to Machines

The afternoon programme followed the money, from minerals that must be processed…

The Morning Session: Five Signals That Set the Commercial Tone

The Morning Session: Five Signals That Set the Commercial…

The opening programme of the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit told investors what…

Dr Nelson Tugume: From Coffee to Capital

Dr Nelson Tugume: From Coffee to Capital

Opening the Summit as Gold Sponsor, the Inspire Africa Group founder argued…

Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga: From Mutual Exchange to Mutual Production

Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga: From Mutual Exchange to Mutual…

Closing the UK–Africa Investment Summit, Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister called for…

Hon. Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu: Capital Does Not Move on Opportunity Alone

Hon. Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu: Capital Does Not Move on…

Hon. Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu told the UK–Africa Investment Summit that peace, security…

Col. Edith Nakalema: Come to Uganda with Your Capital

Col. Edith Nakalema: Come to Uganda with Your Capital

The head of Uganda’s State House Investors Protection Unit told investors in…

Session 03: Capital Is Available and the Constraint Is Preparation

Session 03: Capital Is Available and the Constraint Is…

UK Export Finance capacity for Uganda was put at about £1 billion…

Session 02: Long-Life Assets Need Long-Term Capital

Session 02: Long-Life Assets Need Long-Term Capital

Uganda has strengthened its financial infrastructure. Session 02 of the 16th UK–Africa…

Mihir K. Patel and Shehla Hasan: Africa Brings Resources, India Brings Manufacturing

Mihir K. Patel and Shehla Hasan: Africa Brings Resources,…

Mihir K. Patel and Shehla Hasan told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit…

H.E. MP Khaled Mousa Abu Hassan: Partner and Partner, Not Market and Consumer

H.E. MP Khaled Mousa Abu Hassan: Partner and Partner,…

“We do not want the relationship between Jordan and Africa to be…

Session 01: Capital Follows Minerals That Are Processed at Home

Session 01: Capital Follows Minerals That Are Processed at…

Session 01 asked what turns Uganda’s minerals into bankable, financed and processed…

Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja: Four Commitments to Investors

Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja: Four Commitments to Investors

Uganda’s Prime Minister closed her Chief Guest Address at the 16th UK–Africa…

H.E. Nimisha Madhvani: Uganda Is Open for Business

H.E. Nimisha Madhvani: Uganda Is Open for Business

Uganda’s High Commissioner to the UK welcomed delegates to the 16th UK–Africa…

From Green Bean to British Shelf: Why Uganda’s Coffee Needs a Brand

From Green Bean to British Shelf: Why Uganda’s Coffee…

Uganda shipped US$2.4 billion of coffee in a year, yet too little…

Lord Uday Nagaraju: Own a Greater Share of the AI Economy

Lord Uday Nagaraju: Own a Greater Share of the…

Lord Uday Nagaraju of Bloomsbury told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that…

Lord Raval OBE: Perception Sets the Cost of Capital

Lord Raval OBE: Perception Sets the Cost of Capital

Lord Raval OBE told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that investors price…

Signed Before the First Panel: Mandulis Energy and Oxford College Back 100 Learners

Signed Before the First Panel: Mandulis Energy and Oxford…

A UK education provider and a Ugandan energy company announced a signed…

Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja: Make It in Uganda, Sell It Across Africa

Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja: Make It in Uganda, Sell…

Uganda’s Prime Minister told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that producers based…

H.E. Alastair Long: Trade Is Not Charity

H.E. Alastair Long: Trade Is Not Charity

H.E. Alastair Long told the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit that partnership must…

H.E. Lisa Chesney MBE: The Biggest Risk Is Being Too Slow

H.E. Lisa Chesney MBE: The Biggest Risk Is Being…

H.E. Lisa Chesney MBE reported a UK portfolio in Uganda above £1.3…

Irene T. Kauma: Bigger, Stronger and More Inclusive

Irene T. Kauma: Bigger, Stronger and More Inclusive

Five objectives, one test and a room full of decision-makers. At the…

Willy Mutenza: The Test Is What Crosses the Bridge

Willy Mutenza: The Test Is What Crosses the Bridge

An investment platform earns its place by one measure: it moves projects…

Building New Investment Corridors Between Africa and Emerging Global Partners

Building New Investment Corridors Between Africa and Emerging Global…

East Africa’s next phase of growth will require more than its conventional…

The Jordan–Africa Opportunity: Building Factories, Supply Chains and Regional Markets

The Jordan–Africa Opportunity: Building Factories, Supply Chains and Regional…

East Africa’s next phase of growth will require more than its conventional…

From Drainage to Transport: Kampala Infrastructure Projects Move into…

Uganda will place Kampala’s drainage, sewerage, transport and urban infrastructure requirements before…

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UKAIS 2026 will focus on the commercial systems needed for the next…