The whole village of Buwenge in Jinja district recently gathered to welcome Middle East Consultants (MEC) bosses led by Managing Director, Gordon Mugyenyi. This is because one family in the village has been transformed economically in recent years after MEC took its two daughters to Middle East for jobs. [caption
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Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) on Wednesday launched the ‘USE University Challenge’ in a bid to inculcate an investment culture among students in Universities across the country. The Challenge seeks to give the youth a platform to trade and understand how to invest in shares and bonds listed on the bourse.
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Dickson Mugonjo, 26, grew up in poverty in the hilly areas of Bukinda Sub-County in Kabale district (now Rukiga district). He worked hard to ensure that he changed this status-quo. And when the opportunity came knocking for him to go work abroad through Middle East Consultants- the leading labour exporting
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Do you want to invest in Uganda’s natural protected areas? The Government of the Republic of Uganda has recognized the increasing opportunity for responsible investment to support the protection and management of natural assets by unlocking financing and partnerships through inviting conservation-motivated investors to help build a ‘nature-based economy’. According
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has launched a paper pilot processing plant at the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI). While speaking at the launch on Friday, 22nd September 2017, Kadaga said that she was impressed with the work and innovations the Institute had come up with over time.
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Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa is one of Kenya’s most storied, yet elusive businessmen. Over the last three decades, Ndegwa, 60, has quietly built his company, the Janus Continental Group, into one of East Africa’s largest conglomerates while staying away from the limelight, reports Forbes. Modest in his personal life, calm in
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said Uganda is fast becoming a middle-income country with vast investment opportunities in agro-processing, industrialization and the service based sector. "Uganda is moving towards becoming a fast world country based on four sectors; commercial agriculture, industries, services and ICT," he said. The President was meeting
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Hadijah Nalubega, 30, never imagined she would one day become a landlady given the fact that her job in Uganda wasn’t satisfying. However, after securing a job in Qatar through Middle East Consultants, a labour exporting agency licensed by the government in 2014, Nalubega is closer to becoming a landlady.
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Ugandan youth are increasingly thinking outside the box given the high levels of unemployment in the country. Azizzi Kayanja and Siraje Wasswa, both residents of Ggulu ward in Mukono Municipality are some of the enterprising Ugandans making a living from making modern charcoal stoves. These young men say they started
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In April, Kwese Sports won free-to-air and subscription TV rights for the 2018 Fifa World Cup as they announced themselves an emerging big player in the African sports television market. The rights cost the company around $34m as Fifa pocketed a decent profit after sub-Saharan Africa’s top TV companies splashed
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