Tag: Uganda
Meta expands AI service to Nigeria, Ghana, five other African countries
Meta has announced the expansion of its AI service to seven Sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria and Ghana.Meta is the parent company of Facebook,...
Uganda adds iris-reading feature to national ID
As the Ugandan government ramps up plan to provide new or renew expiring national ID for its 30 million citizens, the country is adding a new...
Uganda slaps 5% income tax on foreign digital companies
The Ugandan government has amended its Income Tax Act to include a new law that imposes a 5% tax on income earned by foreign...
Airtel Money lose US$2.1 million to hackers in Uganda
Hackers have drained Airtel Mobile's systems in Uganda of nearly Ush 8 billion ($2.1 million) after using malware to force AMCUL’s software to approve...
Uganda passes new computer misuse law that potentially criminalizes free speech,...
A month after the Ugandan Parliament passed the controversial Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed it into law.
On the surface,...
Nominations open for Digital Equality Awards
Coalition for Digital Equality (CODE), a network connecting local and international stakeholders to address the digital gender divide and drive sustainable economic growth in...
Ugandan fintech startup Numida raises $2.3m seed funding
It is very rare to find fintech startups in Ghana getting funding to expand, but several of such tech startups in other parts of...
Uganda blocks social media platforms a day to elections
The Ugandan government has blocked access to social media platforms in the East African country just two days before January 14, 2021 presidential and...
MTN: Breach on Mobile Money aggregator platform in Uganda did not...
MTN Uganda has come out and said that the recent security breach on the platform of its partner aggregator, Pegasus Technologies did not affect...
Hackers break into mobile money system, steal billions belonging to Airtel,...
Unidentified hackers broke into the systems of Pegasus Technologies, a company that integrates mobile money transactions between telcos, banks, and other local, regional, and...