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COMESA will start conducting national launches of a digital platform known as the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWSP) Project specifically designed to address the information needs of women in business in the region. According to statement from COMESA, the trade bloc will roll out the Platform in 14 Member States between August and November […]
Mariam Babu, 43, a mother of five and grandmother to two who sells eggs in Kenya and salt in Uganda via the Busia border town, is not the image that springs to mind when you think of a smuggler. Yet when she recalls her time bringing in products from Kenya into Uganda through abandoned bush […]
The Editorial of Burundi’s Jimbere Magazine recently remarked that the TradeMark Africa (TMA) Women in Trade programme has, “Offered hundreds of Burundian women and girls the opportunity to learn and achieve their dreams. It has restored their pride in earning incomes, enabling them to become taxpayers and therefore contribute to the development of the country. […]
Women have been tipped on leveraging the opportunities that lie in mobile as well as child-oriented businesses which present a comparative advantage to other business ventures in terms of profitability.The advice was given by the URA Commissioner General, Doris Akol on Wednesday while speaking to hundreds of women who attended the Annual Women Conference organized […]
Women traders operating between Uganda and Rwanda have expressed their dissatisfaction at how the leaders of the East African community (EAC) have handled the border closure issue. Today 27th Feb 2020, marks one year since the closure of the Rwanda-Uganda border. The women under their civil society organisations, East African Sub-Regional Initiative for Advancement of Women […]
FAIDA Mohammed Shaib, like majority of Zanzibar women, had for many years survived as a mere destitute housewife, with literally nothing to count on as her reliable source of earning. But, that was before 2016. The up-and-coming entrepreneur is today an economically empowered lady, traversing the East African region and minting money from her agricultural […]
The Ministry of East African Community and Regional Development has rolled out a training programme targeting women involved in cross border trade to enhance their capacity to benefit from the EAC integration process. The training will mainly target women traders in border counties on the simplified guidelines to EAC trade rules and regulations. The Ministry […]
By Bemanya Twebaze In Summary Unlock women’s potential. In order to unlock the full potential of women in Uganda, we must continue to foster an entrepreneurship ecosystem for women that helps them to overcome barriers – cultural, legal, social, traditional, etc. The 3rd edition of the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (Miwe) has listed and ranked […]
Speaking during a seminar dubbed ‘The first annual Islamic women conference on Tanzania’s industrialization Agenda,’ NBC’s head of affluent banking, Ashura Waziri said through its B-Club network, the bank has launched a special program now in its third year aimed at building capacity for entrepreneurs including women. The seminar which was crafted under auspices of […]
In Rwanda from the capital city of Kigali to the borders with Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda, cooperatives are building socially and economically resilient communities. TMA has interest in supporting women economic empowerment and this is being shown by its recent financial commitment to increase funding to women programmes. As well as its partnership [...]
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