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Suddenly all my phones (I confess I maintain more than one phone line!) started going off with numerous notifications in the wee hours of Thursday February, 18th 2016. Someone told me: "The entire internet is off in the ...
Uganda’s social media and mobile money blockage takes us several steps back
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Writing about Uganda’s national netball side stirs a lot of emotions in me. These are ladies who, against all odds, qualified and did a fantastic job in the 2015 world cup.
To give a little context, the She Cranes were ...
Beyond effusive Uganda She Cranes tweets, here is how you can help
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No, Daniel van Niekerk is not some malware or virus. He is the infamous guy whose emails keep finding their way in the mail boxes of a bunch of folks I know. This evening I found myself having to respond to a good number of ...

About a week ago, my wife sent me a link to a New Vision story about how Ugandan youth had developed an app to “aid interaction with the president”. I laughed it off and bookmarked for later reading. With my schedules ...
Why Uganda does not need an app to reach the President
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