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From rot to profit: The impact of the Nilezilla Yumbe Fruit Factory

Kisakye ImaniBusiness & Markets Company NewsNovember 28, 2025November 28, 2025

For generations, Kagogwa mango trees have carpeted homesteads and hillsides across West Nile, dropping fruit in golden heaps that often ended up as animal feed or rotting on the ground. During peak season, the loss was so normalised that few spoke of it. Yet behind every spoiled mango was a silent ledger of missed income, wasted nutrition, and unrealised opportunity. Mr. Aniku Saidi and Hon. Oleru. That is the waste Nilezilla set out to confront. From “unprocessible” fruit to a breakthrough The story did not begin in a factory, but in a laboratory at Makerere University. There, Prof William Kyamuhangire…

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Uganda Gov’t to acquire shares in businessman, Ben Kavuya’s USD12.7 mn medical glove-making firm

The CEO Magazine TeamNews & Analysis Politics & Goverment The Big StoryOctober 30, 2023November 1, 2023

Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) the Uganda government’s private sector investing arm, is to acquire an undisclosed number of shares in East Africa Medical Vitals (EAMVL), a medical glove-making company belonging to businessman, Ben Kavuya. The two entities in July this year signed an investment partnership agreement for UDC to make an equity investment into EAMVL, said to be the first medical consumables manufacturing plant of latex surgical and examination gloves in Uganda and one of a few in Africa. Dr. Patrick Birungi the UDC Executive Director signed on behalf of his company, while Ben Kavuya, the EAMVL Chairman, signed on…

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