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Africell Customers Stranded As Company Halts Mobile Money Withdrawals
With only days left its planned exit from the Ugandan market, Africell customers are left stranded as the telecom operator is not allowing customers to make any mobile money withdrawals. According to New Vision, an officer at the Africell Service Centre said all mobile money transactions are suspended for now as the company continues to…
Africell Confirms End Of Road For Ugandan Market After 7 Years
Stiff competition and high indebtedness have forced Uganda’s third largest telecom service company by subscriber base, Africell, to quit the country. The company say its services will stop on October 7, this year, according to a letter circulated to its employees, who will continue to be in employment until November 30. Africell Uganda says its…
African Leaders Must Scrap Off Visas Across The Continent-Kadaga
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called on African countries to abolish the issuance of visas to enable free movement of people across the continent. The free movement of persons, according to Kadaga, will facilitate Africans to ply their trade across the continent which is a prospective market. Reacting to the resolutions reached at…
African Heads of State Honor Dr Nyerere With Special Statue
This morning, something momentous occurred in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa at the African Union headquarters! The African Heads of State alongside our dear Vice President Maj. Jessica Alupo converged at Julius Nyerere Peace and Security building at the African Union headquarters and unveiled a special monument in honour of Dr Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. Nyerere…
African Banker Awards 2021: Equity Named Best Regional Bank in East Africa
Equity demonstrated a strong and consistent financial performance in the 2020 financial year The Group continues to pioneer technological innovations that have led to more convenient banking and transaction cost reduction for customers The Group distinguished itself for its role in safeguarding and cushioning the lives and livelihoods of its host communities Nairobi, 02nd August…
Africa’s Freedom Is With In Her Reach-Bp Dr. George Oduch
When we see such messages that Donald Trump,Joe Biden etc has said this and that; we need to know that all those statements are part of the propaganda machinery from the West. Answers to our problems as Africans are found in our people and what God has put in our continent. The answer is not…
Africa: Life Will Not End With Coronavirus
By Simonetta Nambo Mukwana Kampala: In this first quarter of the year 2020, the world is overflowing with news about the daily deaths as a result of the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19). The beginning of this year was a joyous time in Africa as usual, with all but exhilaration that a new year had come and…
Africa Kwetu Motorsport Fuel Economy Tour Enters Day Two
Participants in the Africa Kwetu Motorsport Fuel Economy Tour start day two of the adventure challenge with Bamboo tree planting in Hoima as one way to conserve the environment. The three day 950km event started on Thursady at Kabira Country Club with 27 participants who passed scrutineering. Some crews failed to make it due to…
Africa Is still A Hot Bed Of Terrorism,Conflict-AU Chairman Ramaphosa
The newly elected Chairperson of the African Union, Cyril Ramaphosa also President of South Africa has noted with concern that Africa still remains a hotbed of terrorism and conflict saying it is a cancer that needs to be eradicated. In his address to the African Union Heads of State and Government during the 33rd Ordinary…
AFCON U20: Jubilation As Hippos Thrash Tunisia 4-1 To Reach Finals
Debutants Uganda U20 Team the ‘Hippos’ are in the final of the Total AFCON U20 after a well drilled 4-1 win over Tunisia at Stade Cheikha Ould Boïdiya in Mauritania. Striker Derrick Kakooza recorded the first hattrick of the tournament hitting the back of the net in the 36th, 50th and 73rd minutes. The youngsters,…