{"id":29839,"date":"2026-03-25T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29839"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:29:34","slug":"uganda-economy-expanded-8-5-in-quarter-ended-december","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-economy-expanded-8-5-in-quarter-ended-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda economy expanded 8.5% in quarter ended December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s economy expanded by 8.5% in the quarter ended December \u200bfrom 5.4% in the corresponding period \u200ca year earlier, helped by strong consumer demand and high activity in construction \u200band other sectors, the Finance \u200bMinistry said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on the \u2060X platform late on Tuesday, the \u200bMinistry also said construction of a $5 \u200bbillion pipeline to help Uganda export its crude oil to international markets had reached 80%.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200b1 443-kilometer (897-mile) (EACOP) will commence from the oil \u200bfields in western Uganda to the port of \u200cTanga \u2060on Tanzania&#8217;s Indian Ocean coast.<\/p>\n<p>After a prolonged delay, the east African country projects to commence commercial oil production in \u200bthe second \u200bhalf \u2060of this year from the fields, which are operated by \u200bFrance&#8217;s TotalEnergies and China&#8217;s China National Offshore Oil Corporation .<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bMinistry \u2060said the government forecasts it will earn 2.2 trillion Ugandan Shillings ($587.04 million) \u2060in \u200brevenues from oil exports \u200bin the 2026\/2027 (July-June) financial year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28996,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-29839","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The \u200bMinistry \u2060said the government forecasts it will earn 2.2 trillion Ugandan Shillings.","published_date":"","news_description":"The \u200bMinistry \u2060said the government forecasts it will earn 2.2 trillion Ugandan Shillings.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29840,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29839\/revisions\/29840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}