Major supermarkets will close on August 8 to allow employees to go and vote. This is even as election jitters creep into the economy. The Standard reports that through adverts in local dailies, Tuskys and Naivas Supermarkets announced that they will not open on Election Day to give customers and
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Livara cosmetics founder and owner, Maxima Nsimenta is among the few young female entrepreneurs nominated for this year's Young Achievers Awards. She was nominated in the Young Achievers Award for Business category. [caption id="attachment_3238" align="alignnone" width="1140"] The organisers of the awards[/caption] Livara Cosmetics manufactures natural and organic cosmetics made from shea
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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma will make his first investment in Kenya through taxi firm, Didi Chuxing, in a partnership with Taxify. Didi, partly owned by Jack Ma’s Alibaba Company, will invest in Taxify, an Estonian online taxi firm with operations in Nairobi. ALSO READ: Jack Ma: How A Poor Rural
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Aliko Dangote has maintained his position as Africa’s richest man despite falling from being the 51st richest person in the world to the 105th in the latest 2017 Forbes billionaires list. Forbes magazine reports that Dangote’s wealth dropped from $15.4bn (£11.8bn) in 2016 to $12.2bn this year, due to Nigeria’s
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Ugandan embattled tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia is no longer East Africa’s richest man. Mohammed Dewji, the CEO of METL, a Tanzanian conglomerate founded by his father in the 1970s, is now the only East African to make it to the latest Forbes billionaires list. According to Forbes’ Real Time ranking, Dewji’s
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Amazon founder and Jeff CEO Bezos overtook Bill Gates to become the richest person in the world on Thursday morning July 27, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever. When markets opened Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead
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Empty plastic bottles (waste) remains a challenge in keeping Kampala and other towns across the country clean. However, Christine Ddamba, 23, a first year student at St. Lawrence University (SLAU) is turning this waste into precious furniture; she makes different types of furniture from empty plastic bottles and paper rolls.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ reign on the top of the Forbes’ Real Time Billionaires List only lasted a morning. Bezos became the richest person in the world for the first time with a $90.6 billion (aboutSh900b) net worth when markets opened on Thursday. But while Amazon stock climbed
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever, Forbes reports. When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead of Microsoft
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Jack Ma, China’s richest man and founder of Alibaba Group recently made headlines when he visited Kenya and Rwanda with 38 fellow Chinese billionaires, all no doubt poised with expensive fountain pens, ready to ink billion dollar deals. But Ma’s story to success is an incredible one. He is a
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