Mobile money agents are the engine of Uganda’s everyday economy, and this is most visible on weekends. From Friday evening through Sunday, transaction volumes surge as customers trade, pay, and...
Asahi Group Holdings, the Japanese brewing and beverages giant, has picked Absa Bank Kenya PLC, ENS Africa, A&O Shearman and Nomura Holdings to advise on its USD 2.3 billion acquisition...
Airtel Africa on Tuesday announced an agreement with SpaceX to introduce Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity across all its 14 markets that serve 174 million customers. Through this partnership, Airtel Africa...
Stanbic Bank’s Head of Personal Banking, Israel Arinaitwe, often returns to a lesson Adam Smith captured in The Wealth of Nations: economic progress depends on a society’s stock of capital....
Centenary Bank has donated 10 computers to Our Lady of Consolata-Kisubi Hospital in a move aimed at strengthening digital health systems, improving patient record management and enhancing the overall quality...
Uganda’s telecommunications giant, MTN Uganda Limited has announced its annual results for the financial year ended 31 December 2021- posting some impressive numbers, considering the tough operating environment, dampened by…
Rocket Health, a telemedicine and last-mile healthcare provider headquartered in Uganda, has announced this morning, that it has closed a USD5 million Series A funding round led by Creadev, an…
By Livingstone Mukasa On January 2nd, 2022, the president of the Republic of Uganda assented to The National Social Security Fund (Amendment) Act of 2021. What caught the public eye…
Airtel Uganda has been awarded as Uganda’s fastest mobile network at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The speed tests were carried out in Uganda in the months of…
In an effort to boost maternal and child health care, MTN Foundation has today handed over a newly refurbished and equipped maternity theatre and ward to the Karugutu health centre…
A return to normality in the Ugandan economy helped lead to a further improvement in business conditions in the private sector during February, according to the Stanbic Bank sponsored Purchase…
Asiimwe Colin, until recently the Head of Marketing at Multichoice Uganda has been snapped up by digital money firm, Wave Mobile Money Uganda as its Marketing Lead, CEO East Africa…
VisionFund Uganda and Turaco Insurance Brokers Limited (T/A Turaco) are proud to officially announce the launch of their partnership with a microinsurance product called “VisionFund Cares”. The product offering, available to over…
The Uganda shilling tumbled further, undermined by a surge in demand from offshore investors on a race for liquidity as international sentiment triggered flight to safety. Trading was in the…
Uber has announced a partnership with driving schools in Kampala to provide training for UberBoda driver-partners on road and vehicle safety. The initiative is part of a solution to ensure…
