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]
Continuing to support education and youth, Canon EMEA, the global digital imaging solutions vendor, has announced its sponsorship participation for the tenth anniversary edition of Uganda Press Photo Awards 2021. Canon has been collaborating with [c]
A business which gives out virtual cash in exchange for rubbish, a start-up which converts faecal sludge into fuel briquettes, and an enterprise which offers smart metering solutions for solar mini-grids, have won the SEED [c]
For sports predictions to bring you not only pleasure but also real income, it is important to choose a reliable betting brand as a long-term partner. The 1xBet betting company in Uganda is synonymous to [c]
FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), the investing arm of FSD Africa, has invested $4.5 million in Nithio FI, a renewable energy financing intermediary focused on the Pay as You Go (PAYG) off-grid solar sector, to provide reliable and sustainable [c]
A bulk of the recently signed SME guarantees by Equity Bank totaling Kshs 52.25 Billion will go towards supporting women-owned and led MSMES across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and DRC, Equity Group MD and CEO Dr [c]
Raxio Data Centre has become the first Tier III Certified Data Centre in Uganda after receiving the Uptime Institute Tier III Certification on October 20, 2020. This was achieved after a diligent assessment and evaluation [c]
Airtel Uganda, together with Comviva, Airtel’s technology partner, has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Digital Wallet Innovation Award, while Airtel Uganda was the overall winner of the ‘Market Adoption’ category. Airtel Uganda and [c]
The topic of the reliability and safety of the bookmaker is relevant for players regardless of their country of residence. Naturally, no matter where you are, you can always track the rating of companies or [c]
Power is one of the most important things to consider when building a data centre; the availability of reliable, steady and connected power is a critical element that brings a data centre to life and keeps the critical [c]
When I was six years old my family moved to Kyangwali refugee settlement in Uganda. For two decades, I called Kyangwali my village and home. Every day, for seven years, I walked kilometers to and [c]
Health start-ups in Kenya and Uganda have been selected as winners in the VivaTech 2020 Global Challenge amid the coronavirus pandemic. This follows an online final challenge organized by Sanofi following the cancellation of the [c]
After the 2020 edition of VivaTech that was scheduled to be held in Paris was cancelled by the organisers of the event, Sanofi will on June 11, 2020 organise an online pitch session as part [c]
Uganda’s digital economy is set to get a major boost with the latest move by Raxio Data Centre to open the market for customers to have more options for redundancy and diversity in the country. [c]
Continuity East Africa (CEA) plans to invest over Kshs 500 million (about $4.7 million) in the next three years to expand its Work Area Recovery facilities in the region. According to the company, the expansion of [c]
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