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Month: May 2020

New Global Independent ‘Oversight Board’ for Facebook and Instagram Content appoints Board Members

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Board Includes Three Members From Africa and Will Make Binding and Transparent Decisions on Content Today, Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières from Cameroon, Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch’s Global Alliances and Partnerships program from Kenya, and Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Program…

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Winners and losers (Part 2) – Strive Masiyiwa.

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The BIG winner is…? When I started my telecoms business in 1993, the number of people in Africa who had access to a telephone was about 0.75%. I’m one of the entrepreneurs who helped change it to 75%! My colleagues and I who started businesses like MTN, Bharti, and Glo were big winners. Now here is your own opportunity: Only…

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Uganda’s 2020/21 budget shoots to Shs 45.4trillion

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Analysts say the proposed budget should focus on key sectors that support revamping the economy Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA AND JULIUS BUSINGE | Over the past six weeks, Uganda has been in a total lockdown. Shops, except pharmacies and agro vets, had been shut. Transport paralysed. Hotels switched to survival mood; sending away a section of their workers on  forced…

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Traffic jam back as Uganda eases lockdown

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Uganda slowly begins easing virus restrictions Kampala, Uganda | AFP | The capital Kampala appeared more lively than it has in recent weeks as food markets, wholesale shops, garages, workshops, law firms and hardware shops were allowed to re-open Tuesday. One or two long stretches of traffic jams were reported on the outskirts of the city as cars made their…

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If we cannot do tourism for now, let’s at least talk about it

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Despite the challenges the industry faces now, it’s upon the players and stakeholders in the sector to keep reminding themselves of what the tourism sector is and has been for many years COMMENT | Lilly Ajarova | In my opening address at this year’s 5th Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo (POATE) held in February, under the theme- Promoting Intra-African Travel,…

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UK investor Gridworks eyes African utilities overhaul

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In too many countries, transmission and distribution remain the responsibility of badly managed state utilities. Gridworks CEO Simon Hodson explains to David Thomas how his organisation plans to invest to make the sector commercially sustainable In the barren, rocky wasteland at the southern edge of Kenya’s remote Lake Turkana sit the whirring turbines of East Africa’s largest windfarm. Some 600…

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Top German judges to rule on massive ECB economic support

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Frankfurt am Main, Germany | AFP | Germany’s top court will rule Tuesday on mass bond-buying by the European Central Bank, a tool the Frankfurt institution has deployed like never before to cushion the impact of the coronavirus. “Will Germany’s supreme court constrain the European Central Bank’s response to the worst ever peacetime recession in Europe?” asked economist Holger Schmieding…

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Be part of the solution – Strive Masiyiwa.

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#Urgent pause: Wash your hands, open your heart (Part 2) My friends, you must pay attention (we have NOT been this way before) but do not panic. Instead, make a plan. Just about six weeks ago I wrote you here to alert you about the COVID-19 epidemic that had hit Wuhan, China. It’s now reached about 117 countries including around 18…

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Working From Home And Its Legal Implications – Barefoot Lawyers- Uganda.

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Not all workplaces are like ours that asked us to stay home immediately the first case of Covid19 was reported in Uganda. However many offices and businesses have been forced to close their doors and stay home after the lockdown was announced and implemented. Working from home indeed creates one too many gray areas for the employee and employer. Some…

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