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Analysis & Features

AFEX names new management changes as it expands operations to Uganda

January 27, 2023 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

New drama series KIU to air on StarTimes as payTV platform boosts local content offering

December 9, 2022 admin 0

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]

CSR

Copia sets up two new facilities in Kampala and Nairobi

November 10, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

The Catalonia national football team

November 7, 2022 admin 0

Spain is a country that is divided into many regions. The opportunities for making the best betting on 1xbet.ug are also available for wagering on Spanish football. Catalonia is one of them. Of course, this [c]

Analysis & Features

MFS Africa to relaunch Beyonic services in Uganda after getting digital payments license

November 7, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Project Shelter Wakadogo of Uganda wins World’s Best School Prize for overcoming adversity

October 19, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Tatu City project to guide EAC policy review on establishment of Special Economic Zones

October 3, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Vodacom picks long-serving MTN exec Philip Besiimire to lead Tanzania subsidiary

September 29, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Uganda’s Project Shelter Wakadogo among 3 finalists in global schools’ contest, to win $50,000

September 28, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate among 4 winners of Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards

September 24, 2022 admin 0

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]

CSR

Luno partners with Makerere University Business School to boost crypto education and awareness 

September 16, 2022 admin 0

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]

CSR

Tripesa, a B2B travel tech startup, raises funds to expand operations in Kenya and Uganda

August 12, 2022 admin 0

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]

CSR

Ugandan MPs to use Tatu City as Special Economic Zones benchmark

July 30, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Project Shelter Wakadogo, a Uganda-based school, named among the best 10 schools globally

June 10, 2022 admin 1

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]

Analysis & Features

Daisy Masembe, a 2021 MTF Academy alumni from Uganda, shines at 8th AMVCAs

May 19, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Maisha Magic Movies set to premier 45 new movies from the region throughout March

March 5, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

SEACOM to acquire select assets of defunct Africell in Uganda

February 10, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

NSSF Uganda unveils Sanyu digital assistant to boost customer service

January 27, 2022 admin 0

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]

CSR

Arrow Electronics donates PCs and mobile phones to aid non-profit programs in Uganda

January 14, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

123 top performers admitted as Equity Bank unveils Leadership Program in Uganda

January 10, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

OilNews Africa report to enable Uganda’s SMEs tap upstream sector development projects

January 5, 2022 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

New Cloud-based solution to boost SMEs’ productivity in Kenya and Uganda

December 2, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Spotify’s Ad Studio now available in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and Jamaica

November 25, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Six startups from Kenya and Uganda to each receive $4000 funding from Leila Janah Foundation

November 9, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Up&Ap: Charles Bwanika on creating a borderless agribusiness space in Uganda

November 8, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Uganda’s top data collectors struggle with data protection and privacy compliance

November 8, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

CMA Kenya approves marketing and sale of MTN Uganda shares to Kenyans during IPO

November 8, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

MTN Group to offload 20% of stake to the public in Uganda IPO

October 11, 2021 admin 0

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]

CSR

US government invests $10 million in Nithio to fund clean energy projects in Africa

September 21, 2021 admin 0

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]

CSR

Africell to shut Uganda unit in October after 7 years of operations

September 7, 2021 admin 0

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]

Analysis & Features

Autochek acquires Cheki operations in Kenya and Uganda from Ringier Africa

September 7, 2021 admin 2

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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Almost 50% of cryptocurrency users fear losing money due to volatility, and no longer use digital currencies

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Kenyan fintech Kyanda Africa among 11 startups picked for Cohort 3 of Africa Startup Initiative Program




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