Uganda, Feb. 8 -- Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has indicated that it now takes between three and four hours to register a business.

In details contained in the 2022/23 Annual Report, Ms Mercy Kainobwisho, the URSB registrar general, said the Bureau had automated and deployed the Online Business Registration System, which had simplified the registration regime and contributed to a reduction in turnaround time from between three to seven days to just hours.

In 2022, URSB operationalised the Online Business Registration System that is fully integrated with the National Identification and Registration Authority and Uganda Revenue Authority to support end-to-end seamless registration transactions and processes.

Initially, the ...