University students who can generate innovative ideas aimed at solving the world’s most pressing challenges stand a chance to get funding from The Hult Prize, a start-up accelerator initiative for social entrepreneurship. Launching the programme in Uganda at Cavendish University, the Hult Prize Campus Director, Frank Mugisha called upon students
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Uganda, fertile and sun-drenched, is harboring dreams of becoming the next cannabis (marijuana) hotshot of the African continent. Foreign capital has been flowing in to launch the new industry. So, much hangs in the balance as the country’s cabinet weighs changes to the criminal code allowing cultivation to proceed. There
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Over 100 Contractors and stakeholders in the Construction sector gathered on Tuesday for a dialogue on,‘Building strategic partnerships to foster sustainable growth in the Construction sector’. The event hosted by dfcu Bank presented a platform to discuss challenges, opportunities and prospects for key players in the sector. The construction sector
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Pearl of Africa Hotel appears to be attracting big clientele in the area of hosting major conferences in the country. According to our sources, more organisations are finding the posh hotel a good venue to host seminars, workshops and conferences. On Tuesday, the hotel’s magnificent ballroom played host to the
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The 1st Uganda-Tanzania business forum scheduled to take place on the 4th to 5th September 2019, in Dar-es-salaam has mounted high expectations as it will focus on the bilateral trade and investment opportunities between the two East African countries. The forum which will take place at Julius Nyerere International Convention
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the global development network of the United Nations, has partnered with the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) — Africa’s leading philanthropy committed to empowering entrepreneurs — to train, mentor and financially support 100,000 young entrepreneurs in Africa over 10 years towards the achievement of the
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East Africa’s highly diversified economies are growing northwards of 6% in a highly integrated regional market which is already attracting significant levels of Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) relative to GDP. Even before the region’s current oil and gas potentialis taken into account, Africa’s most dynamic region presents a powerful investment
Read MoreThe Blockchain Association of Uganda and Crypto Savannah, in partnership with The Innovation Village are seeking for innovators with a passion for developing sustainable digital solutions leveraging technologies in Blockchain, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (A.I), Robotics and Drones to solve pressing challenges across their communities and priority sectors such
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Members of the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL) have been urged to position their businesses in line with Uganda’s tourism in order to fully harness the opportunities presented by the sector. Lilly Ajarova, the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), Chief Executive Officer, highlighted the above while speaking to participants during
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Money-savvy businessmen and women have stocked up piles of merchandise at Namugongo in anticipation of blissful sales in the run-up to the Martyr's day on Monday June 3. Heaps of water boxes, soda cartons, bunches of matooke and frantic movements to set up tents on road side and inside the
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