{"id":137538,"date":"2026-01-10T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=137538"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:59:31","slug":"ugandas-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/ugandas-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda’s debt crisis deepens ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uganda’s<\/a>\u00a0national debt stands at $32.3 billion (\u20ac27.5 billion), with the government recently approving\u00a0a loan of 9 trillion Ugandan shillings\u00a0($2.5 billion, \u20ac2.1 billion), fueling concern over the country’s spiraling finances.<\/p>\n

For many Ugandans, the direct impact of this borrowing is invisible because the promised benefits never seem to materialize. But for economist Steven Alor,\u00a0the public is paying a heavy price for the government’s fiscal indiscipline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Uganda’s\u00a0national debt stands at $32.3 billion (\u20ac27.5 billion), with the government recently approving\u00a0a loan of 9 trillion Ugandan shillings\u00a0($2.5 billion, \u20ac2.1 billion), fueling concern over the country’s spiraling finances. For … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":137540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,1737,54,58,5,57],"tags":[453,1653,733,1054,552,1557],"class_list":["post-137538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-environment","category-finance-sector","category-government","category-news","category-utilities","tag-corruption","tag-debt-crisis","tag-infrastructure","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-public-funding","tag-uganda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}