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Absa Bank unveils mobile solution for business clients

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  | Julius Businge | Absa Bank Uganda has today (Feb.15) launched Business Banking capabilities on their Mobile Banking App aimed at empowering business owners to perform multiple business-related transactions on their smartphones.  Without having to visit a branch, users can approve transactions, view statements and complete …

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COMMENT: How Covid-19 widened cracks in East African Community

  Regional Integration amidst a Pandemic: Covid-19 and the East African Community COMMENT | Prof. Kasaija Phillip Apuuli | The 2019 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s (UNECA) Africa Regional Integration Index (ARII) ranked the East African Community (EAC) as the most integrated Regional Economic Community (REC) in Africa with a …

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Why so many accidents on Ugandan roads?

COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  Recent police accident figures are alarming.  At least 2,634 pedestrians and cyclists are killed on Uganda roads every year according to the Traffic Police records for the last four years. Figures on fatalities between 2016 and 2019 shows 10,537 pedestrians and riders were knocked dead …

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The new Uganda Airlines planes are here, what next?

Vernita Kayiwa and Tina Drazu will be the first Ugandan women to fly the wide body Airbus A330. They have gone further in their civilian flying careers than any Ugandan women ever, no mean feat and worth celebrating COMMENT |  DEREK NSEKO  |  Now that the dust has settled on Uganda …

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Will Covid accelerate productivity growth?

Sluggish productivity growth appears paradoxical given advances in digital and artificial intelligence COMMENT | DALIA MARIN | Since the mid-2000s, productivity growth in advanced economies has been anemic. Average annual productivity growth in the United States from 2005 to 2016 was just 1.3%, less than half of the 2.8% annual …

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