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Adong inspiring Soroti through Manufacturing

Brian EmorutBusiness & Markets Company NewsOctober 30, 2025October 30, 2025

Wearing a Clifton black top, a black skirt with matching black heels, Winfred Phiona Adong walked into Hotel Africana’s Ssezibwa Hall with quiet confidence. When she spoke, she was calm…

How e-commerce startup Kweli.shop is helping solve Uganda’s counterfeits problem

Jonathan N. LubwamaCompany News News & AnalysisFebruary 16, 2023February 16, 2023

In 2018, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), conducted an operation in Kampala. It raided two prominent malls; Energy Centre and Light Centre Arcade. The majority of the shops…

NECESSITY BREEDS INVENTION: How frequent battery runouts led Geofrey Mutabazi to build Charge-ko, a mobile device charging business

David KangyeEntrepreneurship News & AnalysisMarch 24, 2022March 24, 2022

As a reporter covering events and the entertainment industry in general at Chano8, an online news platform, Geoffrey Mutabazi always found himself having the same problem – his phone would…