When Kenny Fihla walked onto the stage at the B20 Summit in Johannesburg, there was a sense that the room was bracing for more than a corporate address. As the Group Chief Executive Officer of Absa Group, one of Africa’s most influential financial institutions, he arrived with a message that felt both urgent and momentous. Africa, he argued, is standing at a rare inflexion point, one shaped by shifting global dynamics and the continent’s own emerging strengths. And if the room expected a predictable speech filled with familiar development clichés, they quickly realised they were in for something different. Fihla…
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Mastercard Foundation has appointed Kenyan business executive, Carole Wamuyu Wainana to its Board of Directors. Carole joins Mastercard Foundation on the back of a tremendous 35-year career as a business leader in Africa, Europe and the USA. She joins a board that includes Zein Abdalla, the retired president of PepsiCo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia and 2011 Noble Peace Prize winner, Louise Arbour, CC, the former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Jay Ireland, the retired president and CEO of General Electric Africa among others. “I am delighted to welcome Carole Wainaina to our Board of…
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The Board of Directors of Airtel Uganda Limited has, according to Rules 36(2) and 54 of the Uganda Securities Exchange Listing Rules 2021, appointed Mrs. Suzan Mweheire Kitariko as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Mr. Keith Kalyegira as a Non-Executive Director. The appointment took effect on 26th March, 2024. In a statement, Airtel says, Mrs. Suzan Mweheire Kitariko “brings a wealth of experience and expertise in both Telecommunications and strategic leadership having previously served as Regional Manager East Africa, Google Uganda, Head of Strategy and Transversal Projects, Orange Telecom Uganda”. Suzan is currently the General Manager of SICPA Uganda. “Her…
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The World Bank has, in its latest forecast, painted Uganda’s economic prospects for 2024 as much brighter compared to her neighbours in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The World Bank published its ‘Global Economic Prospects Report’ on 8th January showing Uganda’s growth is projected to strengthen between 5.4 percent in 2024 and 5.7 percent in 2025 largely backed by oil investments. This is slightly below the Bank of Uganda’s projections at 6 per cent for the Financial Year 2023/24 supported by the continued recovery of industry, agriculture, construction, services and continued foreign direct investments. The World Bank shows a similar pattern…
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The Vegas Golden Knights enjoyed the best start of any expansion team in N.H.L. history, winning eight of their first nine games. But they opened a road trip with a loss.
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