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Science and technology is calling on Africa’s young generation

The 6th edition of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards is now open. We are calling all science and technology fans between 14 and 19 to be inspired to write a creative essay or design a poster based on the following topic: “Take yourself into the future as a scientist, tasked with designing a new-age satellite that will help improve the lives of Africans. Tell us what you would call your satellite and describe the different functions and roles that it would play in the Africa of the future.”

Reach for the stars

The prizes of this innovative competition are as big as the dreams of a young, energised African generation ready to shape the evolution of our continent. Selected from thousands of entries by a high-standard jury, the overall essay and poster winners will be eligible for a once in a lifetime trip for two to Paris, France to visit Eutelsat satellite facilities, with the essay winner traveling onwards to see a rocket launch into space. Runners-up will win a trip to South Africa to explore several sites as guests of MultiChoice Africa. The schools attended by the four overall winners also receive a DStv installation, including a dish, TV, decoder and free access to the DStv Education Bouquet.

Open to all secondary students with an appetite for technology

The Awards are open to all students from secondary (high) or combined schools in Africa where MultiChoice Africa maintains operations. Entry forms can be obtained from any MultiChoice Resource Centre, the nearest MultiChoice office or copies can be downloaded from www.dstvstarawards.com. Entries are accepted in English, French and Portuguese and will be judged on the basis of high-standard criteria of accuracy, creativity, originality and innovation.  The competition closes on 7 November 2016. Only entries submitted on the official entry form will be eligible. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in February 2017. 

Supporting Africa’s education needs

MultiChoice Africa and Eutelsat are convinced by the power of science and technology education to encourage young minds to positively change their world. Now in its 6th year, their joint initiative, the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, inspires innovative thinking among a new African generation.  This pan-African collaboration has created a meaningful engagement with students, the academic community and the scientific world. Since the start of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition in 2011, over 5,000 students have taken part in this unique competition.

About Eutelsat Communications

Established in 1977, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is one of the world’s leading and most experienced operators of communications satellites. The company provides capacity on 39 satellites to clients that include broadcasters and broadcasting associations, pay-TV operators, video, data and Internet service providers, enterprises and government agencies. Eutelsat’s satellites provide ubiquitous coverage of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, enabling video, data, broadband and government communications to be established irrespective of a user’s location. Headquartered in Paris, with offices and teleports around the globe, Eutelsat represents a workforce of 1,000 men and women from 37 countries who are experts in their fields and work with clients to deliver the highest quality of service.

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The latest survey published by an online news site has named Dr. Charles Mbire as the richest native Ugandan alive today among a list of 10 most loaded Ugandans. The list dominated by Ugandans of Indian Origin, noted that Mbire, an astute and trustworthy Businessman, is estimated to be worth over US$ 350 million (Ushs 1.1 trillion).

Mbire who hails from the South Western Kigezi region has made his fortune from investments in telecommunication, Finance, Energy, Oil, real estate, Pharmaceuticals, agribusiness, Cement and transport among other interests.

Mbire comes fifth in the list which placed property mogul Sudhir Ruperelia whose wealth is estimated at a whooping US $ 1.2 billion on top followed by Hotelier Karim Harji with estimated worth at US$ 750 Million. Alykhan Karmali popularly known as Mukwano and Muhamad Hamid, the founder of Aya group came third and fourth place with estimated worth of US$ 700 million and US$ 400 Million respectively.

Other native Ugandans on the list includes little known Ugandan by the names of Aaron Mukasa whose investments are in Banking and media and Gordon Wavamuno, taking seventh and 8th place respectively behind Sikandar Lalan, the proprietor of Roofings who took sixth place with net worth of US$ 300 million. Mukwaya’s wealth is estimated at US $ 200 Million while Wava owns up US$ 100 million.

Mukesh Shukla the owner of Shumuk group of companies and Patrick Bitature another native Ugandan takes the nineth and tenth positions respectively with estimated worth of US$ 100 million each. Bitature is the Chairman of Simba Telecoms limited among other interests.

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Oliver. M. Abwooli

Africa Internet Group (AIG) has today announced its adoption of a one brand strategy with Jumia at the pinnacle.  This new Jumia driven ecosystem will give online customers access to 9 online platforms in a single browse.

People can now find on Jumia all their needs; branded products with Jumia: fashion and electronics with Jumia (prev. Jumia and Kaymu), local sellers with Jumia Market (prev. Kaymu), hotel booking with Jumia travel (Jovago), food delivery with Jumia food (Hello food), Jumia House(Lamudi), Jumia jobs(Ever jobs) and lastly logistics services with Jumia services(AIGX).

While announcing this, AIG management noted that this brand merger won’t affect the operation of its different businesses as they have each retained their parent management. Furthermore, they are optimistic that sellers will also benefit from this move by getting access to more traffic and to a greater world of opportunities.

“We founded our companies with a very strong belief; internet can improve people’s lives in Africa. Uniting all services allows us to better help our customers fulfil their daily aspirations,” Sacha Poignonnec, Jumia co-founder said, adding;

“This is all possible because people connect to our platform to access those services and products in an environment that we have designed for them, addressing their needs and expectations on quality, choice, price, trust and convenience.”

As part of this re- brand, the 9 companies under AIG have not only changed their names but also adopted new website domains and social media page names. For instance, www.hellofood.ug now redirects to www.food.jumia.ug.

“Operating under the same brand name reinforces the legitimacy of proposing other services to our customers and our sellers. We want to have one strong brand that is trusted and loved by our customers across Africa,” Sacha Poignonnec said.

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PLUS: M-Net streamlines and sharpens channels for an enhanced viewing experience

M-Net is putting a smile on your face and your TV screens this July.

From 01 July, M-Net will launch a brand new, feel-good movie channel – M-Net Movies Smile, which will offer plenty of chuckles for the entire family. As the name signals, this is the channel guaranteed to make viewers smile.

What’s more, the month of July will also bring with it new changes that include the revamp of M-Net Movies Showcase. The addition of M-Net Movies Smile (DStv channel 105) and the revamp of M-Net Movies Showcase (moving from DStv channel 108 to 107) will mean that three of the existing movie channels – M-Net Movies Comedy (DStv channel 104), M-Net Movies Family (DStv channel 105) and M-Net Movies Romance (DStv channel 107) will be discontinued from 30 June. Fans of these channels should not despair as the content previously available on these three channels will be consolidated into the new M-Net Movies Smile and the revamped M-Net Movies Showcase channels to ensure that viewers continue to enjoy their favourite movie genres.

What’s more, DStv will add more value to the Compact Plus and Compact packages with the addition of M-Net Movies Stars which will bring viewers more entertainment with the best of Hollywood blockbusters while Africa Magic Igbo (DStv channel 159) will be made available to the Family and Access packages from July.

These channel changes are part of M-Net’s efforts to streamline and sharpen channels in order to enhance DStv subscribers’ viewing experience. From July onwards, the number of movie channels will be trimmed down from nine to seven, well-curated movie channels that will feature a fewer number of older library movies in the schedule to keep the movie offering new and fresh.

From 1 July, the M-Net Movies channel cluster will include:

M-Net Movies Premiere which was on channel 103 will now have a new address on channel 104. It will continue to bring you the latest, biggest and best premiere movies from Hollywood – anything from Kevin Hart comedies to Oscar-winning dramas.

M-Net Movies Smile – channel 105 on DStv Premium is the new kid on the block that will keep everyone who’s young at heart entertained with fantastic animated and family-friendly films. Then, once the kids have gone to bed, the grown-ups can enjoy sidesplitting comedy with the likes of Adam Sandler or Melissa McCarthy.

M-Net Movies Action Plus – channel 106 on DStv Premium will still showcase the biggest, most explosive action movies. Watch Vin Diesel, Keanu Reeves and all the action heroes save humanity from all kinds of evil.

M-Net Movies Showcase – channel 107 on DStv Premium. Apart from being able to indulge this channel’s usual host of lovely festivals, box sets and franchise specials and watch an A-list, blockbuster film that previously premiered on Sunday nights every night in prime time, this will now also be the go-to destination for all romantics that want to be swept away by love stories and enchanting storytelling.

M-Net Movies Stars – channel 111 on DStv Compact, Compact + and DStv Premium.  You can continue to enjoy the company of Hollywood’s A-list stars in exactly the same way as before.

M-Net Movies Zone – channel 139 on DStv Family, Access, Compact, Premium and GOtv. Movie Zone lovers across the different DStv packages will not be affected at all.

Africa Magic Igbo – channel number 159 will now be available to Family and Access, bringing you the best of the best in local series and film.

Other exciting changes coming in July include VUZU AMP which will find a new home on DStv channel 103 – previously occupied by M-Net Movies Premiere. The popular VUZU AMP’s out of this world TV entertainment will now be found in the same neighbourhood as the ever-popular M-Net and M-Net Edge channels. With VUZU AMP moving to channel 103, the M-Net Movies channels will now occupy channels 104 to 111.

So, get your family ready for a great entertainment experience with your M-Net channels in July!

For detailed schedules for the M-Net channels, go to DStv.com.

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This month, MultiChoice Africa continues to bring its Compact Subscribers more entertainment and value with the HISTORY® channel open month. The channel will be available to all DStv’s Compact subscribers across Africa from Monday, June 13 to Monday, July 11.

Making its debut on HISTORY® (DStv 186) on Wednesday, June 15 at 20:30 CAT, is the highly- anticipated television event Roots, the four-part, eight-hour series developed by HISTORY and produced by A+E Studios. During this four week open-window HISTORY will broadcast new and exclusive shows, along with top-rated return titles that Compact subscribers will not have had access to previously.  Roots will also be repeated on Lifetime on Sundays at 8pm (from June 19) following its debut on HISTORY.

Based on the best-selling novel by Alex Haley, Roots recounts the journey of one family’s will to survive, endure, and ultimately carry on their legacy despite enormous hardship and inhumanity.

“Nearly 40 years ago I had the privilege to be a part of an epic television event that started an important conversation in America,” said LeVar Burton, co-executive producer and the actor who played the lead role of Kunta Kinte in the original 1977 version. “I am incredibly proud to be a part of this new retelling and start the dialogue again, at a time when it is needed more than ever.”

Spanning multiple generations, the lineage begins with young Kunta Kinte, who is captured in his homeland of The Gambia and sold into slavery. Throughout the series, the family continues to face adversity that reveals powerful truths about the universal resilience of the human spirit.

Starring in the series are Academy Award® winners Forest Whitaker (“Fiddler”) and Anna Paquin (“Nancy Holt”); Academy Award® nominee and Emmy Award® winner Laurence Fishburne (“Alex Haley”); Golden Globe Award® winning and Emmy Award® nominated actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Tom Lea”); Tony Award® winner Anika Noni Rose (“Kizzy”); Grammy Award® winner Tip “T.I.” Harris (“Cyrus”); Emayatzy Corinealdi (“Belle”); Matthew Goode (“Dr. William Waller”); Mekhi Phifer (“Jerusalem”); James Purefoy (“John Waller”) and introduces Regé-Jean Page (“Chicken George”) and Malachi Kirby (“Kunta Kinte”), originally played by LeVar Burton who is Co-Executive Producer in the new ‘Roots.’

Don’t get left behind, tune into DStv this month for more content and the best in entertainment

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FOX Networks Group (FNG) and MultiChoice Africa today announced that from 1 June, DStv Compact subscribers will be able to enjoy the global entertainment channel, FOX (DStv channel 125) on their bouquet.

FOX channel is a premier entertainment channel that prides itself with bringing ‘The Best, First’, with award winning, ground-breaking and critically acclaimed programming. The move to DStv Compact will significantly increase FOX’s reach to a wider audience, creating new fans of its riveting entertainment in the African market.

As part of MultiChoice’s ongoing efforts to add value to our subscribers’ viewing experience,  DStv Compact subscribers will now get to experience the thrilling and exclusive premieres of the best shows on FOX within hours of the United States broadcast at no extra cost! The hot lineup includes the popular and powerful hit television drama, Empire in which Taraji P. Henson portrays the feisty ‘Cookie Lyon’ with flashy fashion sense and witty remarks, opposite her ex-husband and the ruthless head of the Lyon empire, ‘Lucious Lyon’ played by Academy Award® nominee, Terrence Howard.

But wait…there’s more! DStv and FOX are also offering DStv Compact subscribers a rebroadcast of the second season of Empire with double bill episodes starting on the weekends of the 4th and 5th of June, 11th and 12th of June and 18th and 19th June – three episodes will air per day at 19:20 CAT, 20:10 CAT and 21:00 CAT.

The month of June will also see the premiere of the much-anticipated second season of Wayward Pines on the 6that 21:00, from executive producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Visit), the 10-episode, psychological thriller picks up where it left off in the first season. Starring Jason Patric (Rush, Narc), two-time Academy Award® nominee Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, In America) and Emmy Award® and Golden Globe® nominee Hope Davis (American Crime, The Newsroom), the residents of Wayward Pines are still battling against the iron-fisted rule of the First Generation Dr. Theo Yedlin.

On the same night on 6 June at 21:50 Outcast, based on the Skybound/Image comic title by creator Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) and artist Paul Azaceta, follows Kyle Barnes (Patric Fugit), a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Now, with the help of the Reverend Anderson, a preacher with personal demons of his own, Kyle embarks on a journey to find answers and regain the normal life he lost. But what Kyle discovers could change his fate — and the fate of the world — forever.

For more on this superb line-up and award winning programming tune into the home of The Walking Dead, The Simpsons and more smash hit shows on FOX on DStv channel 125.

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Of recent, it has become a trend in Uganda that most of the fundraising in taking the same direction and that is “car washes”.

This is evident from the time in time out wash activities that have been organised in the first half of 2016. This is from the well organized and successful Save Carol car wash to Save Lake Victoria cash wash that was held on Saturday, 15th May 2016 at Fusion Auto Spa in Munyonyo.

It was organized by the minister of Tourism Hon. Maria Mutagamba and supported by the Miss Tourism Uganda initiative. Miss Tourism queens from the different regions of the country positively turned up hence making the wash successful.

Each car wash was charged 100,000 shs. Among the special attendees was city tycoon Jack Pemba of Pemba Sports Africa alongside different dignitaries from the different walks of life.

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Kampala – Africans are sitting on vast amounts of wealth. This wealth can only be unearthed if they (Africans) grasped the concept of proper branding.

This is one of the key points emphasized during the maiden PR Over Coffee meeting in Uganda on April 22, 2016 at the Kampala Serena Hotel.

Renowned brand architect and founder of the influential Brand Leadership Group, Thebe Ikalafeng noted that while other attributes such as passion and availability of funds play a vital role in growing businesses, the most important aspect is branding.

He however cautioned that Africans ought to stop imitating if they were to succeed in this regard. “Find what it is that you can do different, not better because better can always be bettered! Find your competitive advantage and then build on that.”

Ironically according to Ikalafeng, only 30% of the brands admired by Africans are from Africa. “What does that imply? It means that we have to brand appropriately if we are to be appreciated, only then shall we realize our true potential as Africa,” he said.

Adding, “USA, Europe and Asia have an agenda for Africa, but Africa has no agenda for Africa. Our job as Africans is to therefore stop blaming everybody, begging and borrowing. Why are we enslaved to Aid? Aid only succeeds in breeding corrupt leaders.”

He said that the time was nigh for Africa to harness its potential as the next economic tiger. “Europe has a history, Africa has a future. Africa is all we have; but it is everything we need. We are the future.”

Ikalafeng was the key note speaker at the inaugural PR Over Coffee event in Kampala and based his address on the topic; “Africa Inside; building businesses, brands and relationships in Africa.”

Major General Jim Muhwezi, the minister for Information and National Guidance who was the chief guest at the breakfast meeting lauded organizers of the event saying that it had amplified what government has always advocated for.

“I am pleased that the guest speaker (Thebe) said about branding. As government, we are also rebranding the way we communicate. In the last general election, we realized a communication gap and as a result people were incensed because they had been fed on lies,” he explained.

Adding, “Even my ministry is going to change very soon so as to communicate better. We shall work with the private sector in this regard.”

A brainchild of Publics Africa Communications, Public Relations Over Coffee is a pioneer information empowerment forum, created to promote and stimulate the growth of Uganda’s communication industry and clients’ brands through networking, collaboration, matchmaking and innovation in various professional fields.

Joseph Kanyamunyu, the Managing Director Publics Africa Communications and Project lead of PR Over Coffee Africa says that the purpose of these meetings is to share ideas, tips and tools that entrepreneurs need to shake up their industry, challenge ‘old hat’ practices, increase their bottom lines and have an undeniable impact on the business society in Uganda. The meetings will be held quarterly with each tackling issues in different sectors of the economy.

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Nakayenga Allen is a 26 year old Ugandan mother, living with a rare case of Fistula named a High Ano-Fistula. Unlike the common Fistula cases that are repaired by the traditional vaginal Fistula operations, High Ano-Fistula can’t. Instead, this type of Fistula requires the use of a surgical technique called SETOM.

SETOM is time tested and used world over to repair High Ano-Fistula cases.  

Allen will need to undergo 3 SETOM operations spread between 6 months, with the first one planned for April, 2016.

The total cost of these operations is UGX 15 million. Unfortunately, Allen together with her family and friends, can’t raise the required 15 million. For the past 2 years, they have used all their little savings and earnings to treat this Fistula but with no success.

Allen is hopeful and upbeat that with the help of Friends and Good Hearted People, she will raise the required UGX 15 million and have the operations done. All her future is now dependent on these operations.

Please Support Allen by contributing any Funds you can towards her Hospital costs.

To contribute, please send Mobile Money to 0784 006 983 (MTN Customers) and 0758 786 607 (AIRTEL Customers). These numbers are registered under Publics Africa Communication, a firm that has volunteered to champion this campaign.

ALLEN is counting on YOU, ALLEN needs YOU. SUPPORT ALLEN!

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