Primrose Kobusingye has joined FINCA Uganda Limited, also known as FINCA Uganda as the Head of Marketing, Business Focus exclusively reports. This website recently reported that Kobusingye (pictured above) had quit Ecobank as the Head of Marketing, Product Development and Communications, but we hadn’t established her next destination. Kobusingye recently
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By Vanessa Moungar, Director of Gender, Women and Civil Society If you are a gender champion, then you are familiar with the discussions around the glass cliff. The story of women eager to defy the odds, accepting leadership roles at times of crisis, when the chance of failure is the
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Uganda Government through Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has confirmed that the country is set to lose five properties in Kenya as their leases will expire soon. Uganda through Uganda Property Holdings Limited (UPHL) owns twenty three (23) properties in Kenya-Mombasa and the properties are owned on leasehold
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By Patrick Kiconco Katabaazi Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development recently informed the nation that Uganda’s gross domestic product (GDP) had grown to Ush122.7 trillion ($32.8 billion) from Ush109.9 trillion ($29.4 billion) reported at the end of 2018/2019 financial year. The increase in the value of the economy arises
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Key representatives from over 8 countries in Africa gathered at a workshop in Tanzania organized by Vodacom to look into trends and developments shaping the mobile money industry in Africa. Vodacom also released its Future-Proofing Mobile Financial Services report at the workshop. The report, the first of Vodacom’s Public Policy
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President Yoweri Museveni yesterday hosted Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, and a group of investors from Carlifornia, USA at his farm in Kisozi, Gomba. Kadaga skipped chairing Parliament yesterday and instead opted to visit Museveni’s farm. This left some MPs angered as her deputy, Jacob Oulanyah wasn't also available. Museveni said the
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Measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, authorities said, after the disease spread to all the provinces in the country. Close to a quarter of a million people have been infected this year alone. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the
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Looking at Africa and only pushing for aid is not in the interest of the everyday Africans. It is about the egos of the elites and latte intellectuals who believe they have the solutions to why the continent is still poor. As Africa’s population and economies surge, greater opportunities for
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The Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah and the Speaker of the Rwandan Parliament, Donatile Mukabalisa have called on legislators of the two countries to intervene in the border conflict. While meeting with Oulanyah on 20 November 2019 on the sidelines of the African Caribbean and Pacific-European Union Parliamentary Assembly in Kigali,
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The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) proposes that individuals in formal employment contribute an extra two per cent to close the gaps in the health sector as opposed to the proposed National Health Insurance scheme. The proposal is that collections be made where both the employee and employer contribute one
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