Ugandan startup, Yunga Technologies, has made it to the finals of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation organized by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK. Yunga is now in line to take home £25,000 (about shs 120 million) in equity-free money. The startup will face off with three other African startups. As a finalist, Yunga is assured of winning £10,000 (shs 47 million). .Yunga is a startup that builds a Yaka-like device that connects neighbours to neighbours and neighbours to law enforcement in real-time without requiring the internet. Neighbourhoods are organized into groups or Yunga networks, and each…




