Amnesty International called on Uganda to scrap the tax, saying it robbed “many people of their right to freedom of expression, with a chilling effect on other human rights”.
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni unashamedly defended the country’s new social media tax, saying Ugandans were using such platforms for “lying”, and squandering the nation’s hard currency on fees to foreign-owned telecoms firms.
Uganda’s new tax on social media access limits basic rights and harms business, according to a petition filed by activists to the constitutional court against a levy that civic groups and opposition parties say is onerous.
The government of Uganda has started taxing social media use that requires Internet service providers to block…
The parliament of Uganda passed a tax on social media use, with a bill the President Yoweri Museveni defended by saying such platforms promote “gossiping.”
As of July 1, users of internet messaging services including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Viber must pay 200 shilling, or about $0.05 per day
The Ugandan Government has announced a social media tax set to take effect from July…
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Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup has named Numida,…
Application for Seedstars World has moved to Kampala, Uganda and it is seeking 10…
Honorable D’Ujanga Simon, Uganda’s Minister of State for Energy, together with representatives of Access Power…
SimbaPay, a digital money transfer provider based in United Kingdom, today announced the launch of its money…
It all started when the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, decides to stop on the road to…
Today, Uganda joins Uber’s growing African network. With the launch of Uber, the innovative technology…
Adoption of eHealth private-public partnerships will create more than 700,000 new jobs according to Andrew…
One Acre Fund , a nonprofit agriculture organization that supplies smallholder farmers with the financing…
Google Street View is now available in Uganda, thus making it the fifth African country…