Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years as millions of young African consumers become mobile users for the first time, according to a new GSMA study. It reveals that more than 160 million new unique mobile subscribers will be added across the region by 2025,
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A new dawn for patients and health facilities struggling to find medicine has come. Julius Sseninde, 22, who is set to graduate with a Diploma in Pharmacy from Uganda Institute of Allied Health & Management Sciences -Mulago next year, has developed an app called E Pine Pharmacy, a new pharmaceutical
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"It takes a village to raise a child": as the Fourth Industrial Revolution sweeps across Africa and more of its youth develop coding and other digital skills, there may come a time to update this old saying to: "It takes one child to raise the prospects of a village." And
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The Parliament of Uganda has unceremoniously ended its relationship with Airtel Uganda as its internet service provider. The Legislative body has instead opted for their arch rivals, MTN Uganda, with the new changes causing disruptions into access to internet by both MPs and staff to Parliament. During yesterday’s plenary sitting,
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A Chinese electronics firm, ENGO Holdings Limited, has joined Uganda's industrial sector to domestically manufacture and assemble mobile phones, iPads and laptop computers. The firm is setting up its plant in Namanve, Uganda's flagship industrial park. The construction works expected to last six months commenced this morning with a
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Budadiri West lawmaker, Nandala Mafabi has backed State Minister for Investment, Evelyn Anite in the ongoing fight over management of troubled Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL); saying people running the telecom firm are simply milking it to death. In an interview at Parliament, Mafabi said that Anite is on the right
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Kenyan leaders have condoled with the family of the late Safaricom CEO Robert (Bob) Collymore taking to social media to express their condolence messages. Safaricom is East Africa’s most profitable company. Here are some of the tweeted condolence messages: President Uhuru Kenyatta STATEMENT BY H.E. HON. UHURU KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF
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The Chief Executive Officer of Kenya based telecom giant, Safaricom, Bob Collymore (in featured photo) has died at his home early Monday morning, Daily Nation reports. The Guyanese-born British citizen took a medical leave in October 2017 to fight cancer. "He has been undergoing treatment for his condition since then in
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By Godfrey Mutabazi I had an interesting interview with the BBC East Africa Bureau on concerns around the Taxing of Social Media, which I would like to repeat here. One of the concerns is on the figures reported by the Uganda Communications Commission of internet users that appear to be
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The State Minister for Investment and Privatization, Evelyn Anite has in a new twist of events written to the Attorney General to apply to the court for orders replacing Bemanya Twebaze (in featured photo) as the Administrator of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL). In a letter dated June 26, 2019,
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