AFEX, Africa’s leading commodities exchange and commodities market player, has announced its expansion into Uganda, seven months after it first entered the East African continent. Similar to Kenya and Nigeria, farmers in Uganda will benefit [c]
Subscribers enrolled on the Pay Television platform, StarTimes Media, will now enjoy more local content across terrestrial and satellite bouquets – thanks to the broadcaster’s latest investment in the production of exclusive local drama, KIU. [c]
Copia Global has announced a new state-of-the-art Fulfillment Centre in Kampala as well the addition of its 12th Depot in Kenya as it progresses initiatives to enhance availability for customers in both countries. The two new [c]
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MFS Africa has been granted three licences by the Central Bank of Uganda. The licences will enable the company to extend and deepen its offering in Uganda. The licences obtained are namely – PSP (Payment [c]
Project Shelter Wakadogo in Uganda, which was founded in the wake of war and now educates over 450 children with one of the highest student retention rates in the country, has been named winner of [c]
Tatu City’s mixed-use Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will be used as a case study to guide policy review on the establishment of SEZs in Uganda and at the East African Community level. This follows the [c]
Philip Besiimire has been named MD of Vodacom Tanzania. The long serving MTN Group executive, who takes over his new role from October 15, 2022, will replace Hilda Bujiku who has held the MD position [c]
An outstanding Ugandan school has been named a Top 3 finalist for the new $250,000 World’s Best School Prizes, launched this year by T4 Education in collaboration with Templeton World Charity Foundation, Accenture and American Express. [c]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the winners of its Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards as part of its annual Goalkeepers campaign. The foundation recognized the work of four remarkable change-makers to advance progress [c]
Luno, the leading global cryptocurrency investment platform with over 10mn customers worldwide, partnered with Makerere University Business School, Uganda’s leading business school, as part of Luno’s nationwide cryptocurrency education drive. Makerere University Business School students [c]
Tripesa, a B2B travel tech startup, has closed a pre seed round with participation from Eric Osiakwan, Future Africa, Consonance Investment Managers and LTNT Investments to support the company’s go-to-market in Uganda and Kenya before [c]
The Uganda Parliament will use Tatu City as a benchmark for the successful implementation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ), following a visit by members of the parliamentary Budget Committee to the 5,000-acre new city on [c]
Ugandan school, Project Shelter Wakadogo, which supports vulnerable and hard to reach children, has been named as one of the top 10 schools globally by World’s Best School prizes in the Overcoming Adversity category. The [c]
The eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCAs) came to a rousing end on Saturday, 14 May 2022, with winners announced on the biggest and most glamorous night to celebrate African film [c]
Maisha Magic Movies (DStv 141) has announced a March Movie festival that will feature 45 movies from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania that are set to thrill fans of local programming. The movies will range from [c]
SEACOM, the pan-African telecommunications service provider, has announced that it will acquire selected infrastructure assets from Africell in Uganda. The acquisition marks a significant step for SEACOM and is a testament to the company’s commitment [c]
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of Uganda has transformed its customer experience with powerful self-service capabilities by introducing an AI-powered digital customer assistant named ‘Sanyu’ based on Avaya technology. Sanyu, an advanced chatbot that [c]
Arrow Electronics has donated laptops and cell phones to the Global Livingston Institute (GLI), a nonprofit focused on improving health, the environment and economic development opportunities in the region as part of its ongoing effort to bridge [c]
Equity Bank Uganda has launched the Equity Leaders Program (ELP) by admitting its first cohort of 123 top performing scholars from the 43 Districts where the Bank has a branch presence. The launch of the [c]
Leading content generation and upstream oil and gas activity analysis firm OilNews Africa has provided the first free industry outlook for the upcoming Uganda upstream sector development phase being led by TotalEnergies and CNOOC. Uganda [c]
Cloud Productivity Solutions has launched a Small Medium and Enterprise Boost (SME Boost) solution, powered by Microsoft 365 Business, that seeks to transform the way modern businesses work. SME Boost provides organizations with improved real-time [c]
Spotify’s self-serve ad platform, Ad Studio, launched this week in Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, making the innovative advertising medium available to even more artists around the globe. Ad Studio is a tool [c]
The Leila Janah Foundation has announced that it is open to entries for its 2021 Winter Edition of the Give Work Challenge Program in which six teams from Kenya and Uganda will be granted seed [c]
Charles Bwanika is a new generation social entrepreneur, passionate about undertaking positive challenges to bring about positive impact people’s lives he’s a seasoned child rights activist, experienced and qualified Community development expert with a BA [c]
Unwanted Witness has released a new analysis evaluating how Uganda’s top data collectors – many of whom operate across Africa – adhere to privacy standards and best practices that protect consumers’ personal data. The Privacy [c]
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the marketing of the MTN Uganda Initial Public Offering (IPO) to be marketed in Kenya, allowing the telco’s shares to be sold to both Professional Investors and Retail [c]
MTN Uganda has announced its intention to proceed with an initial public offer (IPO) and subsequently list on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE). The planned move follows the requisite approval by the Capital Markets Authority [c]
The US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has invested $10 million in Nithio’s Financial Intermediary, Nithio FI,, an AI-enabled clean energy financing platform. Strongly aligned with DFC’s climate-focused investments agenda, the investment is aimed to enable [c]
Africell, which launched in Uganda in 2014, has announced that it will wind up its by 7 October 2021. Africell entered the Uganda telecoms sector and market by acquiring the operations of Orange in the [c]
Autochek, the automotive technology company facilitating auto financing across Africa and ROAM Africa (Ringier One Africa Media) have entered into an agreement for Autochek to acquire automotive marketplaces Cheki Kenya and Cheki Uganda, as Autochek [c]
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