Increasing consumption of meat and meat products among households has created more demand for standards and quality products in the meat value chain. Speaking at the National Stakeholders Meeting for players in the meat value chain, as part of the celebrations to mark the World Food Safety Day, the Uganda
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Ethiopia To Open Up Telecoms, Airline To Foreign Investors
Ethiopia is opening the state-owned telecommunications company and airline to foreign investors for the first time, a move that indicates new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is more receptive to outside interests in Africa’s second-most populous nation, Bloomberg reports. Ethiopia will sell minority stakes to foreign and domestic investors in state
Read MoreFarmers Stuck With Rice As ‘Favoured’ Importers Enjoy Tax Holidays
Rice farmers in Uganda under their umbrella body Rice Association of Uganda (RAU) have decried government’s failure to protect them as it (government) ‘selectively’ gives tax incentives to importers. The farmers mainly from Butaleja district petitioned Speaker Rebecca Kadaga on Monday and painfully told her how government has reportedly favoured
Read MoreINTERVIEW: ChapChap App Innovator Reveals How It Benefits Entrepreneurs
In 2015, an analysis by Approved Index revealed that Uganda was the most entrepreneurial country in the world. The analysis noted that the East African country has the planet's highest proportion of people who have started businesses. The research shows that 28 per cent of its adult population started businesses
Read MoreAfrica’s Top 10 Most Popular & Admired Brands Revealed
Brand Africa in association with the JSE, Friday announced the Top 100 best brands in Africa on their 6th annual Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands at the JSE in Johannesburg. The US sports and fitness brand, Nike, is the overall #1 brand in Africa spontaneously recalled by consumers. South
Read MoreThe Africa Innovation Summit Wednesday announced the innovators selected from across the continent to exhibit their solutions at the forum, which will take place from 6 to 8 June 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda under the esteemed patronage of His Excellences President Paul Kagame and Pedro Pires (ex-President of Cabo Verde
Read MoreLead Africa Out Of Poverty, Mak Vice Chancellor Urges Students
Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has urged students of Makerere University to strive to lead the African continent out of poverty, because nobody else will. Prof. Nawangwe was addressing over 300 students of Makerere University who are sponsored by Mastercard Foundation, during their annual leadership training held at
Read MoreIn June 2015, a report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) crowned Uganda as the world’s most entrepreneurial nation, beating 72 other nations in the ranking. The report discovered that out of an average of 10 Ugandans, 3 were entrepreneurs. It was a surprise that Uganda, a small country tucked
Read MoreBusiness people are set to benefit from the inaugural Mkutano investment conference as discussion will focus on how to sustain economic development using the capital markets. David Ofungi, Founder and CEO of DERO, the curators of Economic Mkutano conference due to take place on Tuesday 15, May 2018 in Kampala
Read MoreBy Godfrey Ssenteza Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) constitute 99.95% of all companies in Germany. There are 3.67 million SMEs in Germany employing 68% of the working population of the country. The SME sector is thriving in this part of the world. With an annual turnover of up to 500m
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