Social media shutdown: Online businesses count losses
Daily Monitor Thursday February 11 2021 An Internet user browses through the Jumia online shopping portal before the Internet shutdown in January. PHOTO | MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI Summary Ms Farida Matovu, the chief executive of Kampala-based Fana Kitchen Ware, which sells kitchenware online, says: “It takes a long time to upload or download pictures. The videos are not uploading.” Advertisement Online businesses in Uganda were first hit by last year’s four-month Covid-19 lockdown and just when they were staggering to life, the government struck them down last month with the shutdown of Int...