East African musicians and artists are set to benefit from a regional initiative that will support over 300 youth through a new deal signed by the founders of the MTN Nyege Nyege festival who have launched Hakuna Kulala, a new artists incubation label in East African Community region. Dr. Kirsten
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Nala, Virtual Identity and Wallet.ng dazzle have emerged the top three winners of Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2018. All 11 finalists were officially inducted into the Ecobank Fintech Fellowship programme to explore commercial partnerships with the pan-African banking giant. Winners of the 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge were announced at a ceremony
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Victoria University, one of Uganda’s fastest growing universities has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Swedish top med-tech company to help in implementing and evaluating efficiency of artificial intelligence diagnostic support platform. The MoU was signed between Victoria University and One World Health and Byon8 at Victoria Tower in
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Accessible only by ferry services, Kalangala District still struggles with ensuring adequate access to healthcare. With the closest national referral hospital being in Masaka – on the mainland of Uganda -, Kalangala District Local government officials are looking to have the status of Kalangala Health Centre IV elevated to hospital
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Nigeria’s central bank has fined four leading banks a combined sum of $16m (£12.3m) after they were accused of helping the country’s largest mobile phone operator, MTN, to illegally transfer $8bn abroad, BBC reports. The banks and MTN have been ordered to refund the money. The banks under fire are
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MTN Group Ltd. is facing pressure to list its unit in Uganda as Africa’s largest mobile-phone company seeks to renew a license in the country, reports Bloomberg. While selling shares on the local bourse isn’t a pre-condition for the granting of a new 10-year contract, the East African nation wants
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Global music and video streaming platform, TIDAL in partnership with the leading communications operator in Uganda offering mobile & fixed telecommunications, MTN Uganda, have today announced an exciting, first-of-its kind collaboration. The partnership provides MTN Uganda customers a variety of options for a data-inclusive TIDAL membership as part of their
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The MTN Foundation has today concluded the donation of hospital items in three hospitals based in Mubende, Kyenjojo, and Bundibugyo. The handover activities were concluded today at Bundibugyo Hospital in Bundibugyo where 25 beds, bed sheets, mosquito nets, and mattresses were received by the hospital administration. The other two hospitals
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In the spring of 1994, Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana’s executioners arrived. It was about two weeks after the Hutu majority-controlled government stepped up its decades-long persecution of the Tutsi minority, calling on citizens to slaughter all Tutsis. Nizeyimana’s family was Tutsi, and it didn’t take long for the killers to come
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Activists behind the protest against the Mobile money and Over The Top Services (OTT) aka social media taxes were Thursday morning thrown out of Parliament Committee of Finance, after MPs denied having invited them for the meeting. The group made up of lawyers Godiva Akulo and Silver Mugisha and journalists
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