The Fintech industry in Africa has for the past few years been on a maximum 6-speed rise. As startups continue to brace this league for more innovative ideas, further development of Fintech systems on the continent will broaden delivery and use of financial services by all classes of people.
Uganda will this year join the list of countries that have organized the Africa Internet summit with the latest being Senegal that hosted the summit in 2018. In June, hundreds of players in the African and Global internet industry will once again meet at Sheraton Kampala hotel for the 2019 Africa Internet summit.
TrueCaller is one of the most downloaded apps on the play store after its caller identification system became a popular norm in the corporate circles. Sooner or later TrueCaller will be one of the most used apps in Africa with support from telecoms and popular startups trailing up user data for key identification.
Uganda Airlines has for the past decades been off the map with no official plane to make the airline active. Well, the wait is no more since a video of one of the planes kissing the skies of Canada has made rounds on social media for the past 2 days. The CRJ9 aircraft is one of the many ordered jets to revive Uganda Airlines back to shape.
MTN Uganda has not had a good 2019 after Police deported the telecom's Chief Marketing OfficerMr Olivier Prentout and top officials including the Mobile Money manager Ms. Elsa Mussolini, the boiling pan has slid to the Company CEO who is now enjoying the fresh air of his home country.
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have announced the top 10 African startups selected for their Future 4 Africa Accelerator. All startups listed were chosen basing on their aerospace based soltuions aiming at solving social-community challenges like transportation, healthcare and agriculutre in the pipeline.
