SafeBoda is seeking to increase the number of riders under its brand to 30,000 this year. Thompson Ricky Rapa, a founder of SafeBoda disclosed this during their community event at Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala Sunday, URN reports. The SafeBoda Community was celebrating its growth to more than 8,000 riders in
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Restaurant chain Java House Africa is set to inject KSh1 billion (UShs36bn) into growth plans across the region this year as part of its 2019 blueprint that includes the introduction of a new brand of eateries and expansion of express stores, Business Daily reports. Java will introduce the ‘new concept’
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has said there are efforts to destabilise his country through an attempt to replicate the so-called Arab Spring, BBC reports. He was speaking in Egypt's capital Cairo after meeting his counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. It is his second foreign trip since protests began in December. The
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The Uganda government has dismissed social media reports that the famous Source of the Nile Bridge has developed cracks. In a statement issued on Sunday, government says the reports are misplaced explaining that the contractor is in the process of applying permanent asphalt. Below is the full statement January 27th
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One person has been injured in an IED explosion at Latema Junction, Nairobi Kenya. According to reports, the suspect handed over luggage to a bookseller before the explosion. The Kenya Police have been asking people within the Nairobi Central Business District not to move towards Latema Tom Mboya Street where
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One of the biggest challenges facing families today is child care for the working parents. As more mothers enter the work force and seek to develop their careers, the demand for childcare continues to grow. According to Manuela Mulondo, CEO and founder Cradle Childcare, her company’s vision is to work
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The Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP), an initiative of the Uganda Government, is aimed at improving access to financial services by Women and equipping them with skills for enterprise growth, value addition and marketing of their products and services. UWEP’s objective is to empower Ugandan Women for economic development. Download
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The Uganda shilling strengthened as demand remained dull with very weak appetite for dollars during the week ending 25th January 2019. On the supply side, dollar inflows improved, following renewed interest by offshore investors in the bond market. Trading was in the range of 3685/3695. In the Interbank money market,
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By REUTERS Kampala A Ugandan company has started using blockchain, the technology behind virtual currency Bitcoin, to certify shipments of coffee to try to meet growing demand from consumers for more information about where products have come from. Carico Café Connoisseur said the move could help to boost farmers’ incomes,
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Government has backtracked on its threats to ban sports betting in Uganda, Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija saying the proposal from President Yoweri Museveni was to reserve the industry for the local companies as a move to arrest capital flight from Uganda. “We have discovered that so much of our
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