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John Paul Semyalo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pebuu Africa, a fast-growing fintech and last-mile financial infrastructure company helping banks across Africa manage and scale their agent banking networks through technology, field supervision, and data-driven oversight. Under his leadership, Pebuu has built a nationwide network of supervisors and digital tools that strengthen compliance, reduce fraud, and expand financial access in remote and underserved communities.
John Paul Semyalo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pebuu Africa, a fast-growing fintech and last-mile financial infrastructure company helping banks across Africa manage and scale their agent banking networks through technology, field supervision, and data-driven oversight. Under his leadership, Pebuu has built a nationwide network of supervisors and digital tools that strengthen compliance, reduce fraud, and expand financial access in remote and underserved communities.

Pebuu’s John Paul Ssemyalo: Reimagining Africa’s Agent Banking and Last-Mile Digital Economy for Efficiency and Scale

As agent banking accelerates across Africa, moving trillions of shillings annually and expanding deep into trading centres, border towns, and island communities, the real challenge is no longer access. It is efficiency,
March 8, 2026
Eng. Ziria Tibalwa Waako, ERA’s Chief Executive Officer since 2016. Before ascending to the CEO role, she served as ERA’s Director Technical Regulation. She has over two decades experience in the power sector.

THE STATE OF ELECTRICITY IN UGANDA: From deficit to surplus and the role of the Electricity Regulatory Authority― Q&A with ERA’s Eng. Ziria Tibalwa Waako

Congratulations upon making 20 years. What would you say are the key highlights, achievements and or milestones, for ERA and generally the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) in these 20 years? ERA’s achievements
November 25, 2020
An Umeme technician at work. Umeme ays the adjustment in the ECP will allow the power distributor to ease the pain of its customers who have been in queue

Umeme welcomes gov’t move to allow privately funded power connections; says move will ease pressure on 240,000 queued applications

Umeme Limited, Uganda’s largest distributor of electricity has welcomed government’s move to allow customers who can afford to, to pay for their connections as the impasse around the Electricity Connections Policy (ECP)
November 8, 2020
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