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Safeboda is a league of proffessional boda drivers who came up with a reckoning solution to improve safety and spur professionalism to the motorbike industry. As a matter of fact, the Safeboda community has attracted more investors to focus on the fast rising industry and Uber, Taxify, Dial Jack and Pikime are some of the ride hailing services trying their take in the Safeboda dominated wing.

A decade ago, Facebook was known as one of the fastest rising online based startups with a promising high impact in the future. In 2019, Facebook is the biggest social media platform consititing of all sorts of content creators and ever growing community amidst stiff competition from Twitter and its very own Instagram and Whatsapp platforms.

Huawei today launched world's first core chip specifically designed for 5G base stations, Huawei TIANGANG. At a 5G launch event in Beijing that doubled up as a pre-briefing for the MWC Barcelona 2019, Huawei announced the innovative chip that will support simplified 5G networks and large-scale 5G network deployment all over the world. To date, the company has won 30 commercial 5G contracts and shipped over 25,000 5G base stations globally.

SafeBoda is a boda hailing service that has grown popular from its glory days in 2014 to date with its orange branded drivers shining bright in Kampala as the best motorbike hailing service. Uber boda and Dial Jack are some of the key competitors giving the firm some great head to head competition as Taxify boda is now struggling step by step down the ladder to a point that it may exit Uganda.

The ride hailing industry in Uganda majorly dominated by 3 companies on both the Boda hailing side and taxi version. Talk about Taxify and listen to the company that shook things up with barely 2 years on the local scene. In October 2017, Taxify stretched out to the taxi-hailing sector before opting a shake-up to the boda hailing industry in January 2018 giving some great competition to SafeBoda in its own league.

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.