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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Beekeeping has gained prominence in the last few years and continues to be among the top trending agribusinesses that are becoming more profitable. While Honey is obviously the main source of beekeepers’ income, there is a lot more revenue to be earned from beekeeping. Sandra Ajang (pictured above) dfcu Bank’s
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A Ghanaian author, Ernest Agyemang Yeboah wrote that “a diligent hawker today can be a great tycoon tomorrow”. This clearly describes the character of Brian Yesigye Bravo, 42, the brain behind fast-growing Bravo Shoes. For social media junkies, the name Brian Yesigye and Bravo Shoes aren’t new to you, but what
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The African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Awards committee has unveiled the winners for different categories in the just concluded polls for the African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Awards 2019, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi emerging as the African Political Leader of the Year 2019, after
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African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi Adesina received the African of the Year Award from the All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA™), Thursday, in recognition of his bold leadership and the innovation of the Africa Investment Forum which “opened up billions of dollars of investment into the continent.” The ninth
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Celebrating the unique unifying power of diversity in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a historic one-off Emirates A380 flight marking the 48th UAE National Day and the UAE Year of Tolerance took off from Dubai International Airport on November 29, 2019. Ugandans living in the UAE were part of the
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Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei (pictured) broke the 10km road world record in Valencia, setting a new time of 26 minutes 38 seconds. The 23-year-old broke the previous record by six seconds, which was set in 2010 by Kenya's Leonard Komon. Cheptegei was crowned 10,000m world champion in Doha in October, having
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