Ugandan siblings Esther and Ezekiel Mutesasira (pictured) have been crowned the winners of the first edition of East Africa's Got Talent in a contest that drew participation from four regional countries. The singing duo won a cash prize of $50,000 (UShs184m) in the Sunday night finale that had six contestants.
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Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja (pictured) has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Serwanjja is a presenter at Uganda's NBS TV, where he hosts one of the channel's prime-time shows. He has also produced award-winning reports, including one for BBC's Africa Eye programme about
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On September 23-24, 2019, a group of journalists including myself visited Asili Farms located in Masindi and Kiryandongo districts (Kiryandongo was curved out of Masindi district a few years ago), approximately 217 kilometres (by road), North-West of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Asili Farms is an initiative of American investors and
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After months of searching the African continent, The Anzisha Prize has unveiled its top twenty finalists for 2019. The winner will be announced at the ninth Anzisha Prize Forum on 22 October in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Anzisha Prize, an African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation partnership, is dedicated to
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On 28th August 2019, at a press conference held at the Provincial Secretariat, Namirembe, the Rt. Rev. Edison Irigei, Dean of the Church of Uganda, announced that the Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba was elected the 9th Archbishop of the Church of Uganda. The election was held during a
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African enterprises are excelling in their efforts to establish Intelligent Enterprise capabilities and take advantage of the immense opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This was one of the key outcomes at the 2019 SAP Quality Awards, which were held in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening, and which recognised some of
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Leading Pan African entrepreneurship and innovation non-profit, the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the top finalists in its annual awards to celebrate women leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa. Promoting excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation amongst women-owned businesses in all sectors and across all 54 African countries,
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos sold over 530,000 Amazon shares in the first two days of August for $990 million (UShs3.6 trillion). After taxes, he will net an estimated $750 million (UShs2.76 trillion) in cash from the sales. The sales on August 1 and 2 followed $1.4 billion (after-tax)
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On Tuesday fans of one of Tanzania's oldest clubs will gather at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam to celebrate "Simba Day". It is the culmination of "Simba Week" and features a friendly for the senior team against Zambia's Power Dynamos as well games for the under-20 and women's
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He's worked on Windows Mobile for Microsoft. He was cofounder of a company that sold to Russia's Google, Yandex, in a reported $38 million deal that made him wealthy. But Yaroslav Goncharov's biggest success (and stress) has come with a company that's miniscule by comparison: FaceApp. Leading a staff of
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