Lusaka, Zambia | Xinhua | A virtual import and export conference and exhibition opened Tuesday with the Zambian government urging African countries to embrace e-commerce in order to accelerate trade. The two-day event, hosted by the Zambian government in collaboration with the private sector, is a flagship networking platform aimed at promoting intra-Africa trade on the African continent. It has brought…
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Metrological’s Application Platform simplifies MultiChoice’s seamless integration of over-the-top content into a single viewer experience. Metrological announced today that it has been selected by MultiChoice Group to bring premium OTT services, international apps and localized content to its subscribers across Africa on its new Explora Ultra set-top box as well as its new Streama OTT platform. MultiChoice leverages the Metrological…
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M-Pesa has become the first mobile money provider in Africa to join the Financial Taskforce established by United for Wildlife, a coalition of charities that works to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. United for Wildlife was created in 2012 by The Royal Foundation, led by Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge. It has brought together conservation organisations, governments and global…
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Driven to secure financial inclusion across its markets, MTN Group continues to grow the number of MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) users on its network, a trend that has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of September 2020, nearly 42 million people were regularly transacting on MTN MoMo across 16 markets. This compares to 38 million active users at the…
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Now that we are in a hated political times and I want you to know how I think about both politics and business and how they are related. In a politically mature country business actually controls politics mainly because businesses pay for the promises that the politicians make and also facilitates their campaigns. Business taxes pay for the hospitals, schools,…
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Show me your favourite version of the Jerusalema Dance Challenge! One of the most extraordinary phenomena of the last few months is the #Jerusalema Dance Challenge! The world has never seen anything like this, and it is fitting that this uplifting song should fill the world during this gloomy time of the pandemic. We have quite a few versions of…
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Lisa Stark Hughes an American Health investor who has been in the country for a while has commended President Yoweri Museveni for building a robust health sector that favors establishment of big investments in the country. The American investor whose trade is majorly in the areas of Fertility and Reproductive health made the remarks during her medical tour across the…
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Time for action! Back to serious business again today and the subject is: who on this platform is taking what you have learned here and putting it into action? I want to hear your entrepreneurship ACTION stories. What exactly are you “Doing”? Every day what steps are YOU actually taking? One of you suggested in a recent comment here that…
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Online traders in Uganda risk losing the market or even discourage online shopping all together over persistent failure to fulfill the expectations of the online customers, according to trade and digital innovation experts. The growth of online business has picked up pace during the lockdown as more people sought to access goods and services amidst transport restrictions and the digital-based…
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The Senior Presidential Advisor on Diaspora Affairs, Amb. Abbey Walusimbi has called upon Ugandans living abroad to consider taking up investment in the agriculture sector given the condusive environment created by the NRM government. The call was made during the Ugandan Diaspora Agri-food Investment E-Conference 2020 organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diaspora Department in Partnership with Food and…
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