While mobile subscriptions dropped by 11%, internet subscriptions registered subdued growth, leaving mobile money as the standout performer, according to the latest market performance report that highlights the effects of COVID-19 on the ICT sector. The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) report indicates that mobile subscriptions dropped from 28.4 million at
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Susan Muhwezi/NTV photo The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development is seeking for Shs650M to purchase a car for the Senior Presidential Advisor on The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a position held by Susan Muhwezi. The details are contained in an addendum to the Supplementary Schedule for
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A section Members of Parliament are calling for urgent reforms in the banking sector as one of the ways to prevent what they termed as exploitation of Ugandans. This is after Justice Henry Peter Adonyo ruled that loans Diamond Trust Bank-Kenya offered to local businessman, Hamis Kiggundu aka Ham through
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President Yoweri Museveni and some key Government officials pose for a group photo on Saturday at State House, Entebbe. This was after meeting a team from Umeme, led by Chairman Patrick Bitature and MD Selestino Babungi President Yoweri Museveni and some key Government officials on Saturday met with a team
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L-R (back) Huawei MD Gaofei, Kyambogo Dean Justus Kwetegeka, Muni Vice Chancellor Prof Christine Dranzoa, Permanet Secretary ICT Ministry Hon BagirreVicent, MartrysNkozi Vice Chancellor Prof John Chrestom and Huawei PR Gaojian PLUS Team Uganda (in front) Huawei Uganda has today awarded three students who represented Uganda in the Huawei ICT
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The president will now be referred to as Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni Uganda’s President, known publicly as Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has officially changed his names, to include his childhood name, Tibuhaburwa. The name, which is in his Runyankore mother tongue, can be translated as "he who cannot take advice or
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Central Bank of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge More than 337 unregulated digital mobile lenders and micro financiers have been barred from forwarding the names of loan defaulters to credit reference bureaus (CRBs). The CRBs say the number of firms allowed to blacklist defaulters with the bureaus has dropped to 2,254
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(L-R) Former BOU Deputy Governor, Dr. Louis Kasekende, Rotary District Governor, DG. Rosetti Nabbumba and Uganda Breweries Managing Director Alvin Mbugua during the commissioning of Gravity Water Project in Bududa District Over 2,000 residents of Buwali Sub county, Bududa district are set to benefit from the recently commissioned UGX 335M
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Women in Uganda use the internet far less than men according to a new survey from the World Wide Web Foundation which found that 27% of men in the country are online, compared with just 19% of women. Uganda had by far the largest gender gap in internet access among
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East African partner states are losing out billions of dollars by inadequately investing in adding value to horticulture and leather goods produced in the region and not addressing bottlenecks derailing growth in the sectors. This follows findings from a report launched by the East African Business Council (EABC) in collaboration
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