Light Over Light Capital (LOLC) Finance Uganda, which offers finance and technological solutions to agriculture in rural areas is now spreading its wings across Africa. Based in Kisoro district - Uganda, the company now has more than 600 customers and 4000 users across Rwanda, DRC, Kenya and Nigeria. “We saw
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Amos Wekesa is passionate about tourism and now agribusiness Known as the poster child for tourism in Uganda, Amos Wekesa had it made in tourism, until the disruptions occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic forced him to diversify. In this interview, Wekesa speaks, verbatim, about diversifying from tourism into agro-processing, the intersectionality
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URSB Registrar General Mercy Kainobwisho displays the two awards she received from Rotary International for community engagement Mercy Kainobwisho, the Registrar General of Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) & Official Government Receiver was yesterday honored with the Makerere University Business School (MUBS) Women of Distinction Award for excellent leadership. The prestigious
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Joshua-cheptegei. Courtsey picture Uganda’s long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei has been nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the year award 2020.Cheptegei has been nominated alongside other five international athletes who include USA’s Basketball player LeBron James, Poland’s football player Robert Lewandowski who plays for German club Bayern Munich, Spain’s Tennis
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Mumba Kalifungwa, Absa Bank Uganda MD (L) and Harriette Kasirye, Head of Marketing & Corporate Relations, pose with the certificates received by the bank. Absa Bank Uganda has been named the Banking Group Brand of the Year (Uganda) and Best CSR Bank (Uganda) 2020 by the Global Banking & Finance
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TIME has named Tony O. Elumelu (pictured), one of Africa’s leading investors and philanthropists, in the 2020 TIME100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognises the activism, innovation, and achievement of the world's most influential individuals. Mr Elumelu, who is
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Dr William Wasswa’s low-cost digital microscope speeds up cervical cancer screening Two Ugandan innovators, Dr William Wasswa and David Tusubira have won $13,000 (UShs47.9m) each in this year's Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation The top prize was won by Technology entrepreneur Charlette N’Guessan. The Ivorian 26-year-old,
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He is passionate about coffee right from the garden up to consumption. While he is mainly into value addition, his aim is to ensure that the farmer-the fulcrum of the coffee sector, equally benefits from coffee business through ‘right’ (high) prices. Literally, he drinks, speaks and dreams coffee. In a
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Ecobank Uganda has received two prestigious International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certificates, Business Focus reports. These ISO certifications from the British Standards Institution (BSI) give Ecobank Uganda a competitive advantage and publicly demonstrate the bank’s legal and regulatory compliance and commitment to the prevention or reduction of large-scale process disruptions
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Alice Kansiime (pictured) is the proprietor of Financial Empowerment Uganda Limited (FINEM), a registered microfinance entity that has been in business for the last 12 years. FINEM is mainly focused on empowering women and the youth and operates by the philosophy that everybody can be financially free. “Our aim is
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