Vivo Energy has entered into a partnership with several service providers including restaurants and banks to allow motorists have access to banking services, mobile money services, super markets and food courts. Vivo Energy group CEO Christian Chammas says Vivo Energy is making a deliberate effort to listen to its customers …
Read More »France’s war against Rwanda
THE LAST WORD: By Andrew Mwenda What the war between Paris and Kigali over Habyarimana’s death tells us about the two nations Once again France and Rwanda are locking horns over who killed that nation’s former genocidal president, Juvenal Habyarimana. I have followed this debate for 15 years and every …
Read More »Kampala gossipers put in their place
Gossip is one of the themes of the clay works collections at Dr. Lilian Nabulime’s ongoing show at KfW in Kampala. Nabulime has keenly observed that Ugandans enjoy gossip – the habit of engaging in idle talk by revealing real or made-up information about other people to those who have …
Read More »Mabano on making affordable roofing products
INTERVIEW: Godwin Mabano is the executive director of Mabaati Roofings Systems. He spoke to Agnes E. Nantaba about their operations and other pertinent issues in the construction industry. What are the key elements in your management style as a manager? The main element in management is setting a target and …
Read More »Vision Group to pay Shs 50 dividend per share
Despite a notable decline in profits, the Vision Group will pay its shareholders a dividend of Shs 50 per share, which translates into a total of Shs 1.4 billion. The dividend, which will be paid on or before Jan 18, 2017, is a little higher than the Shs 35 the …
Read More »When natural cures disappear
Traditions clash with modern science over lost plants, animals, fish 64-year old Milly Namwanje knows something about the diseases of infants. She had six children of her own and she is now a grandmother of one-month old Sheebah. Unfortunately, Sheebah has a problem that Namwanje has diagnosed – but she …
Read More »MP Rabbi Gershom Sizomu: I’m ashamed of Shs200m car
INTERVIEW: Rabbi Gershom Sizomu is the leader of the Jewish community in Uganda the first Jew to win a Parliamentary seat in Uganda’s political history. On February 19, Sizomu who ran on Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) ticket won the Bungokho North parliamentary seat after beating seven candidates, including two …
Read More »Kigali Marriott opens
The Kigali Marriott Hotel officially launched its operations on Oct.4 at a ceremony attended by the Marriott International President and Chief Executive Officer, Arne Sorenson. Following the hotel’s launch, Sorenson met with President Paul Kagame and discussed Rwanda’s hospitality industry and the hotel group’s interests in Rwanda. Sorenson said he was …
Read More »Food price anxiety
Surge in prices could cause inflation flare up, squeeze Ugandan economy further – experts Uganda’s consumer price inflation fell more than expected in the past three months to September, thanks to a huge drop in non-food prices during the period, but economists say the downward trend is unlikely to be …
Read More »Gatete named Finance Minister of the Year
Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Claver Gatete, has been named Finance Minister of the Year in the Sub-Saharan category by Global Capital, an international news, opinion, and data service Gatete’s honour was announced on Oct.04 together with winners from Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and …
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