The Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group has published Uganda’s 16th enhanced follow-up report and seventh technical compliance re-rating, concluding that Uganda has made further progress in addressing deficiencies identified in its 2016 mutual evaluation. The report upgrades Uganda’s rating on Recommendation 7 on targeted financial sanctions related to proliferation from Partially Compliant to Compliant, Recommendation 33 on statistics from Non-Compliant to Compliant, and Recommendation 28 on regulation and supervision of designated non-financial businesses and professions from Non-Compliant to Partially Compliant. Recommendation 40 on other forms of international co-operation remains Partially Compliant. Uganda remains in enhanced follow-up. The rating upgrades were tied to a series of legal and institutional changes. For Recommendation 7, the Anti-Terrorism Regulations 2025 replaced the 2023 rules and established a framework under which United Nations designations must be transmitted and acted on within 24 hours, with freezing required without delay and without prior notice, alongside monitoring and sanctions for non-compliance by financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions. For Recommendation 28, July 2024 amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering Act and sectoral laws clarified supervisory responsibilities for casinos and other designated non-financial businesses and professions, enabled sanctions, and were supplemented by risk-based supervision tools adopted in 2025, although gaps remain in fit and proper testing for real estate agents and trust and company service providers. For Recommendation 33, Uganda designated the Financial Intelligence Authority as the central authority for AML, CFT and CPF statistics, introduced monthly reporting by competent authorities, and put in place case-management and asset-recovery arrangements to support more comprehensive data. On Recommendation 40, Uganda improved legal gateways, secure channels and prioritisation procedures for information exchange, but the report says deficiencies remain on timely feedback, confidentiality safeguards in all cases, feedback by the Financial Intelligence Authority to foreign counterparts, and some aspects of supervisor-to-supervisor information sharing. Uganda will remain in the enhanced follow-up process and continue reporting to the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group on progress in improving and implementing its AML and CFT measures.

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