MTN opens Mobile Money API as it unveils Shs1bn fund for innovators. The Mobile Money Open API will now be accessed by third parties. The expectation is to enable innovation around payment systems. MTN has also […]
Kitamu Cooking Oil production is helping to reduce Uganda”s deficit of the edible oil annually. Uganda”s demand for vegetable oil is high but the production is not meeting market demands. Annet Nyengamahe of Aponye Uganda […]
SAA ‘should be shut down’, says Finance Minister Tito Mboweni 2 November 2018 Taxpayers have paid over $2bn since 2012 to keep the struggling national carrier in the air South Africa’s state-owned airline should be […]
Doing Business 2019: A Year of Record Reforms, Rising Influence, Kenya and Rwanda Improve Colombia is among the many countries around the world reforming their business regulations. Facing high start-up costs for his suckling pig […]
Clarification on media reports regarding fake eggs on the market Kampala, 2nd November 2018. As the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), our attention is drawn to the story that appeared on the front page […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met with the President of StarTimes Group Pang Xinxing on Wednesday when he was attending the Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing. Mr Pang Xinxing introduced […]
Zambian President Edgar Lungu said that the country’s relations with China are mutually beneficial and no malicious propaganda will break the friendship. Lungu made the remarks while opening the third session of the 12th National […]
More than $16m (£12m) in cash and luxury watches were seized at an airport in Brazil in the luggage of a delegation accompanying the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, local media has reported. Teodorin […]
The European Parliament debate on the chaos that ensued in Arua and the subsequent arrest and alleged torture of suspects, was based on rumors picked from social media, the Government Spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo has said. […]
The inflation in Sudan continued rising to an unprecedented 66.88 percent in August from 63.94 percent in July, said Sudan’s Central Statistics Bureau Sunday. The bureau attributed the rise to the decrease in the prices […]
By Red Pepper Online Uganda cocoa farmers will smile all the way to the bank after value addition on the crop has been taken to another level on the crop by Stephen Sembuya a 34 […]
Kampala International University (KIU) last week officially ushered-in first year students. The university saved a whole last week for these new students to get oriented to the institution, the peak of which was a general […]
The Ministry of Water and Environment has re-echoed its commitment to providing 100% water coverage in the country by 2030. Eng. Ian Arebahona, the Principal Engineer at the Ministry made the reassurance last Thursday while […]
The policy direction to reorganize government agencies will have meaning if it leads to effectiveness and efficiency of government in delivering public goods and services, according to the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa Albert […]
Airtel Uganda has today opened another premium shop in continuation of their efforts to provide excellent one-on-one customer care experiences to subscribers across the country. The expansion drive which came on the heels of successful […]
The national blood bank has been boosted with 433 units of blood following a successful weeklong blood drive championed by Uganda Breweries Limited in partnership with Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS). This was in response […]
Riots resulting from the arrest and detention of MP Robert Kyagulanyi last month could have made worse a slowdown in trade registered in the last three months. Stanbic Bank’s Purchasing Managers’ Index released on Wednesday […]
A report into the levels of physical inactivity across the globe has found that Uganda is the world’s most active nation. The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, is a compilation of surveys done […]
South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar refused to sign the latest draft of a peace deal with the Juba government that would end a years-long conflict, Sudan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. “The main opposition […]
Britain supports South Africa’s land reform programme provided it is carried out legally, Prime Minister Theresa May said in Cape Town on Tuesday, adding that she would discuss the issue with President Cyril Ramaphosa. “The […]