“Food Sitoowa” has fast become a household name in Mbale city and its neighboring districts. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the country in 2020, president Yoweri Museveni announced a total lockdown of the country as part of the containment measures. Schools, transport, and all kinds of social gatherings were
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Dison Kareng, the founder of Bros Coffee Ltd says quality is everything to them On 27 October 2021, Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA, in partnership with the Uganda High Commission in London and the British High Commission in Kampala, held the inaugural UK-Uganda Specialty Arabica Coffee Cupping competition. The UCDA
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Participants admire Crafts and Shea Butter Products on display during the GI workshop at Bomah Hotel in Gulu Recognition of geographical indications helps to build the productive and trade capacities of countries, and strengthens their capacity for trade negotiations. As part of the wider strategy to popularize identification and protection
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Panelists at the Kampala innovation week In 2020 Beyonic, a home-grown Ugandan startup providing digital payments solutions in five countries was acquired by MFS Africa, the largest digital payments hub in Africa. In a young entrepreneurial ecosystem like Uganda where many startups are fast strapped for cash, and where the
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Charity Ainembabazi at the quarry (Photo Credit Samuel Amanya) A 22-year-old female student of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) has turned the nationwide lockdown to start and grow a stone quarrying business. Charity Ainembabazi, a student of Business Administration, says the business enables her to earn sufficient income and
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The government has finally released the modalities for the disbursement of the Covid- 19 relief package worth 200 Billion Shillings to small enterprises. The fund was announced back in June as the government closed more sectors as part of the measures to contain the second wave of the Covid 19
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Captain Clive Okoth (pictured above) is a decorated pilot working with Uganda Airlines. Captain Okoth graduated from the East African Civil Aviation Academy in 2007 with a Commercial Pilots License. He went on to join Air Uganda initially as a First Officer on the MD 87, then on the CRJ200 before checking out as
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Mr Chesol Tom, the RDC for Kapchorwa District is assisted by Olympic medalists Jacob Kiplimo and Peruth Chemutai and Endiro Coffee CEO Gloria Katusiime to cut the ribbon as they launch Endiro Coffee at Sipi falls In a bid to promote local consumption of coffee across the country, one of
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Seated (L-R) Gilbert Agaba, Director Intellectual Property URSB, Caroline Egesa, Board Secretary URSB, James Wasula GSWIM Chairman & Lillian Nantume CEO pose for a group photo with the participants during the workshop at Hotel Africana in Kampala. Under its Women In Business (WIB) Initiative launched in March 2021, the Uganda
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Kawongolo monitoring his layers One and half years ago, Isaaka Kawongolo, 27, was traveling to his poultry farm in Kayunga by boda-boda when they were knocked by a speeding car after it lost control. He was rushed to a nearby Health Centre IV that evening and later referred to a
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