GENEVA – At the World Health Assembly in May, we made the case for why governments and United Nations agencies need to spend more on measures to prevent noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), injury, and violence against children. One of us – Zoleka Mandela – spoke of losing her 13-year-old daughter to a drunk driver, and of suffering sexual […]
Uganda Free Zone Authority (UFZA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Enterprise Corporation (NEC) to construct the initial phase of a Public Free Port Zone at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. The MoU was signed by the Executive Director of UFZA Richard Jabo and the Managing Director of NEC, Lt Gen. James […]
German software company SAP and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) plan to jointly create 450 jobs for highly qualified personnel in the IT sector in ten African countries. The collaboration, which was presented in Berlin by German Development Minister Gerd Müller and by Michael Kleinemeier, member of the Executive Board […]
East Africa Metals has executed a definitive share purchase agreement and joint venture contract with Silk Road Resources Investments Co Limited for development and operation of the Adyabo project’s Mato Bula and Da Tambuk deposits in the Federal Republic of Ethiopia. Silk Road Investments is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tibet Huayu Mining Co Limited (THM). […]
Gateway Delta, a private real estate development company with a permanent capital structure resident in Mauritius, has bought Metroplex Shopping Mall based in Nalya, a Kampala suburb. According to a press statement sent to East African Business Week by Knight Frank Uganda, the Mauritian firm bought the shopping mall for redevelopment. “The redevelopment of the […]
Nathan Charles Kyalisiima was voted employee of the year 2018 at Dial Jack, a motor cycle (boda boda) service company. Working as the operations manager, attributes the achievement to hard work. “I am hard working, I keep time at my work and always fulfil all my duties as given to me by my superiors; I […]
About 30 small scale business owners are set to benefit from financial literacy training that will be conducted by Makerere University Business School and Orient Bank under the Orient Business Academy. The business academy aims to help small and medium enterprises with a turnover of less than Ush120 million to grow their businesses to the […]
Prisca Akello Wanga, a first year student at YMCA earns Shs 500,000 monthly in laundry, general cleaning and selling eggs. “I sell eggs; if the season is good I sell like two trays earning like Shs10,000 profit a day and when the season is not good I sale like one tray getting 5,000 profit,” she […]
The British Embassy in Mogadishu has launched an award for journalists with videos and photographs which demonstrate a positive, original and unique story about Somalia and Somaliland. The embassy has invited media students and early career journalists based in the two countries to submit their productions as part of the celebrations of the World Press Freedom […]
Uganda’s economy grew at 6.4 per cent in the first half of FY2018/19, up from 6.1 per cent in FY2017/18, according to the latest edition of the Uganda Economic Update released by the World Bank. The report, “Economic development and human capital in Uganda: a case for investing more in education” attributes the growth to […]
Virtual University of Uganda (VUU), Sub-Saharan Africa’s first private online-only university and a vanguard in the technological revolution in university education, has kicked off a campaign to raise USD 1 million in scholarships and bursaries for masters and postgraduate students in Africa. The backdrop of this initiative according to the university is the reality that […]
As Somaliland celebrated its 28th year since parting ways with Somalia recently, President Muse Bihi has invited corporate companies worldwide to invest in the country. One company that has maintained its confidence in Somaliland is Coca Cola. Built 40 kilometers from the capital Hargeisa in Jalelo, the Coca Cola Company has offered employment not only to […]
Hassan Lubega, a motorcyclist with Dial Jack, has managed to start his own business of a motor spare parts shop that earns him at least Shs1 million a month and has bought six motor cycles. He has also bought a plot of land. Tell us your name and a brief background about you? My name […]