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Britain appoints Ms Lisa Chesney MBE, a Counter- Extremism expert as new High Commissioner to Uganda

Paul MurungiExecutive Profiles The Big StoryJuly 17, 2024July 17, 2024

The newly appointed British High Commissioner to Uganda, Ms Lisa Chesney MBE is a highly trained counter- extremism expert, according to details sourced from her biography and curriculum vitae. Ms Chesney will take up her appointment in October 2024 in succession to Ms Kate Airey OBE who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Security and Defence has been a theme throughout Ms Chesney’s career, she has worked with a range of countries, multilateral partners and government departments on this agenda. Before her posting to Uganda, Ms Chesney has been serving as as British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone since…

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Securing a Safer Tomorrow: Ugandan Security-Tech Startup, Yunga Seeks $250,000 to Scale its Break-Ins Alarm System.

Jonathan N. LubwamaEntrepreneurship Technology & Innovation The Big StoryJune 29, 2023July 1, 2023

The story of Yunga is personal to Anatoli Kirigwajjo. Anatoli comes from Kyotera, a district close to the Uganda-Tanzania border. Like so many other Ugandans, he made the trip there to celebrate Christmas leaving his house in Nsambya unattended to. As fate would have it, thieves broke into it. “I was enjoying my well-deserved holiday with family when my neighbour called. He told me my house had been swept clean.” Anatoli tells me in a sombre mood. “I froze for a while, and everyone was sad for me. But I kept on asking myself what I would have done to…

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Ugandan Hardware Startup, Yunga, Makes it to the Finals of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

Jonathan N. LubwamaEntrepreneurship Executive Profiles Technology & Innovation The Big StoryJune 10, 2023June 10, 2023

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…

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FULL STATEMENT: Museveni: Criminal gangs have been uprooted

The CEO Magazine TeamPolitics & GovermentNovember 4, 2019November 4, 2019

By President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Fellow Ugandans and, especially, the Bazzukulu After some weeks of absence. This time, I will, again, address you on the issue of combating crime because crime was appearing, again, after we had suppressed it with Operation Wembley in the year 2002. The criminal groups, in recent times, had killed people in the areas of Kampala-Entebbe, Ntungamo, Lyantonde and the Kisoro areas. I have not yet received the report for Kisoro. However, for Kampala Metropolitan, Ntungamo and Lyantonde, the gangs have been wiped out. These gangs had killed 13 people, injured 2 and robbed sh. 24…

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