The 2019 shortlist for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation was announced yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa, recognising the most promising entrepreneurial engineers from across sub-Saharan Africa. Among the 16 shortlisted engineers, Uganda has two; Anne Rweyora, who came up with a combination of technologies that help women acquire
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has closed down the production facility belonging to Mbogo Quality Cuts Limited located in Bulenga, the processors of Alpha Special brand of sausages, due to poor hygienic conditions contrary to the Standard for good manufacturing and hygienic practices. [caption id="attachment_19625" align="aligncenter" width="598"] The
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MTN Uganda Wednesday became the first telecom company in Uganda and in the MTN Group to grant access to third-party access to its Mobile Money Access Programming Interface (API). An Open API platform enables developers and programmers to get free access to MTN mobile money proprietary software platform. MTN Mobile
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Today dfcu bank joins the rest of the world to celebrate the Global Entrepreneurship week, a worldwide movement to shine a spotlight on the importance of entrepreneurship to our economy. In 2007, dfcu Bank established the Women in Business program (dfcu WiB) with specific focus on supporting women entrepreneurs and
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Doris Akol (in featured photo) was first appointed Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority in October 2014. She was definitely headed for a daunting task considering the fact that she was replacing Allen Kagina, the ‘lady’ who had literally become the image of URA. Under Kagina’s leadership, URA became one
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As project sponsors, borrowers, lenders and investors gathered at the Africa Investment Forum to make deals on investment opportunities, leaders of the continent’s top agribusiness companies shared their thoughts on the future of the industry. With its vast agricultural potential, Africa’s agribusiness sector is predicted to reach US$1 trillion by
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We live in economically turbulent times, with the costs of living and running a business rising almost by the day. For some entrepreneurs, this is the time to give up; for many more, though, this is the time to tighten belts and make smarter decisions. Starting a business is the
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Barclays Uganda has partnered with the Netherlands Embassy, Kampala to organise a trade mission for 31 of the Bank’s Small and Medium Entrepreneurs to the Netherlands. The trade mission scheduled to take place from 4 – 13, November 2018, is part of the Barclays Uganda annual programme for its Business
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5,000 African entrepreneurs, private and public sector leaders and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem convened in Lagos on Thursday, October 25, 2018 for the annual Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum. The event which is the largest gathering of African entrepreneurs in the world, is a unique opportunity for bringing together
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dfcu Bank has appointed two new members to join its Women in Business Advisory Council (WBAC) effective October 1st 2018. The new Council members are Grace Makoko a respected female banker in East Africa and Belinda Namutebi a leading communications expert in Uganda. As one of the few East African
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