News Uganda Ecommerce: Uganda: Buganda Kingdom Backs Launch of Kibuga, a New E-Commerce Platform
The Buganda Kingdom today witnessed the official launch of Kibuga, a new e-commerce platform aimed at transforming how Ugandans buy and sell goods online. The launch, held in Bulange Mengo, was presided over by the Katikiro of Buganda, Charles Peter Mayiga, who framed the initiative as a step toward merging tradition with technology.
News Uganda Ecommerce: MTN Uganda Calls FMCG Businesses to Try Their Supply Chain Digital Platform
MTN Uganda is currently inviting FMCG businesses to explore the FMCG Digital Suite and experience the transformative power of digital solutions.
News Uganda Ecommerce: Ugandan vanilla on high demand in China, says Kilimall
BUSINESS ;| ;UGANDAN ;| ;VANILLAMany African countries are struggling with value addition and efficient industrial mechanisation. ;As has been the norm, African countries can only provide raw products and cannot often add value to them or, better yet, compete favourably, particularly in terms of quality assurance on the international market.Regardless, African countries have continued to make economic strides through partnerships with countries...
News Uganda Ecommerce: Q&A: Uganda’s Museveni on staying in power, rights abuses
Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda since 1986, is currently serving his sixth term at the helm of affairs of the East African country. In that time, his administration has repeatedly been ...
News Uganda Ecommerce: American Couple Face Death Penalty in Uganda for ‘Torturing’ Foster Child
An American couple living in Uganda since 2017 are facing the death penalty for alleged aggravated torture and trafficking one of their three foster children, according to multiple press reports.
News Uganda Ecommerce: American foster parents charged in Uganda with torturing 10-year-old
Police said the couple allegedly "constantly tortured" a child they fostered. LONDON -- An American couple living in Uganda has been charged with aggregated torture for their alleged treatment of ...
News Uganda Ecommerce: Digitisation essential in tax administration, says URA
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has said digitisation of the financial sector will go a long way in facilitating e-commerce, which will eventually ease tax administration.Speaking during a symposium to discuss harnessing digitisation as a driver in reshaping the tax system to support financial sector development, Mr John Musinguzi Rukoki, the URA commissioner general, said digitisation of the financial sector implies that financial products and...
News Uganda Ecommerce: How Uganda reaps from digital gains
Deficiencies in the basic support infrastructure for digitalisation economy exclude many from the digital economy ...
News Uganda Ecommerce: Building a thriving E-commerce business in Uganda
How efficient is it? When it comes to payments, e-commerce is highly susceptible to money laundering and other examples of cybercrime. Uganda now has a law regulating the payments sector called ...
News Uganda Ecommerce: TOURISM SECTOR: The role of e-commerce
As key service sectors such as that of hospitality continue to strive to stay afloat under a now relaxed global travel space, the Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities says e-commerce...
News Uganda Ecommerce: Jumia Celebrates a Decade of eCommerce in Uganda
Jumia Uganda, the country's leading eCommerce platform yesterday celebrated its 10th-anniversary commemorating a decade of eCommerce in the country.
News Uganda Ecommerce: Lipa Later secures Ksh1.36B in new funding to expand across Africa
Lipa Later, one of the first of it’s kind buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) company operating in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Nigeria, has raised USD 12 million from a consortium of investors.
News Uganda Ecommerce: Kenyan BNPL startup Lipa Later eyes more African markets after raising $12 million
Lipa Later, a Kenyan tech-led consumer credit platform, is planning to expand to new markets in Africa after raising $12 million in pre-Series A funding. The equity and debt funding round was led by ...
News Uganda Ecommerce: Why I See My Refugee Family’s Story In The Creator Economy
Welcome to Disruption Squared, my LinkedIn newsletter! In each issue, I’ll be going deep on tomorrow’s unicorns: the companies, people and ideas disrupting how we do business. (Not signed ...
