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A chapati maker in one of the surburbs of Kampala. FILE PHOTO
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Feeding schools and growing business
It is amazing what a seemingly small saving can do for a relentless and visionary person. Perhaps she needed more money seed capital but Ms Constance Nayiga had only Shs50,000 at the time when she started her Chapati making business way back in 1992....
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Bakery business emerges from credit crisis
LONDON. While others perceived it to be challenging, he was determined to turn it into an...
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Tea growing facing labour shortages
Tea could be one of Uganda’s leading foreign exchange earners but it is currently grappling...
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High power tariffs top manufacturing problems
Electricity outages and the cost of power tops the lists of major constrains that small and...
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AGRA calls for prioritisation of agriculture
Last week, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) called on global leaders at...
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Airtel-Warid deal is a game of data and mobile money
Bharti Airtel’s recent acquisition of Warid Uganda only gives us an inside sneak peak of how...
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2013/14 budget preview :Ugandans to face tough financial year
The withdrawal of budget support by the development partners means that the government must...
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Business clinic :How to lower your costs
If as encouraged in an earlier article, you now religiously track what your enterprise earns...
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Great professionals can be great teachers as well
Congratulations on becoming a father! Raising a child is the most wonderful experience you...
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SMEs urged on alternative credit access
Access to finance remains one of the biggest problems that Small and Medium enterprises are...
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Law to check gambling
- Uganda loses revenue due to exporting raw tea
- Investment minister calls on insurers to support Uganda Re
- KQ jet targets new cargo volumes
- Uganda’s sugar imports stuck at Busia border
- Uganda’s trade balance posts 26 per cent improvement, says BoU
- Invest in airport expansion to grow aviation sector – official
- Services, agriculture sectors spur growth
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Air Uganda’s new plane to ply Mogadishu route
- KQ jet targets new cargo volumes
- Slight drop in fuel prices attributed to weak dollar
- Parliament urged to intervene in trade treaties
- Industry minister invites Israeli investors to Uganda
- EABL Tanzania growth to beat Kenya, Uganda
- SMEs to train in global business competitiveness
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New supervision model signals mergers in insurance industry
- Govt to turn Kampala slum to low cost housing estate
- IRA plans to regulate health financing schemes
- Insurers turn to mobile money to improve performance
- Insurance levy to be monitored
- Insurance regulator drafts laws targeting low income earners
- Build consumer trust to boost insurance industry, say experts
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Samsung announces 5G data breakthrough
- Sim card registration in final stages, says UCC
- UTL embarks on turnaround plan
- UCC okays Airtel, Warid deal as subscribers are reassured
- MTN mobile money users to shoulder higher charges
- UTL embarks on turnaround plan
- Air conditioners that are controlled by phones unveiled
- Investment minister calls on insurers to support Uganda Re
- Uganda loses revenue due to exporting raw tea
- Law to check gambling
- Tea growing facing labour shortages
- High power tariffs top manufacturing problems
- AGRA calls for prioritisation of agriculture
- Bakery business emerges from credit crisis
- Airtel-Warid deal is a game of data and mobile money
- 2013/14 budget preview :Ugandans to face tough financial year
- Feeding schools and growing business
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