Wacha wewe. Ndugu @kasujja only needs to add a QR code below the one liner such that interested parties can scan that QR code to visit the full story on the website of the Uganda Media Centre!
You get?
Not until the likes of @iamjohnoliver@60Minutes@HBO do an expose on the scale of PayPal freezes, limits, and what actually happens to the funds they freeze.
The tune to which it’s a large scale.
The normal person will never be helped.
PayPal froze a wave of Kenyan accounts this week. The framing is anti-money-laundering compliance. The reality is that millions of freelancers and small businesses are treated as fraud risks by default because of where they live.
He who feeds you controls you. He who holds your money controls you twice.
Mobile money already proved what happens when Africans build their own rails. M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Wave, Chipper. Every layer of financial infrastructure on this continent needs the same treatment.
If we do not build it, someone else's compliance team will decide who eats.
Your CEO should be strong.
Your CTO should be wise.
Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,
Evolve with the times sir, the attention span today isn’t as it used to be, can you imagine from your full interview with Pepe, the only take home today’s is “Why are you gay” …
I have PayPal accounts in Kenya and the EU, and the difference is ridiculous.
The Kenyan one gets blocked, restricted, and frozen so often that it is basically useless. Even after sending the documents they ask for and answering their endless questions, the account still gets treated like a crime scene. They keep escalating the documents needed to keep the Kenyan account operational and to send and receive basic money.
Surprisingly, I have never had this problem with my EU account, yet I am the same person operating both accounts.
The experience is similar for many fellow Africans I have spoken to. Bottom line is that PayPal just gives African users the worst of its experience.
I hope the new @PayPal CEO @EnriqueJLores
It's hard for me to explain to those outside #Uganda just how irritated the Ugandans are to be lumped in with DRC for the #Ebola epidemic. As of this writing, there have been hundreds of deaths and over 1000 cases in Congo, whereas Uganda has had only 9 cases -- three Congolese, four medical workers who treated them, one driver who drove them, and one other known contact. Only one person has died in Uganda, a Congolese.
So when WHO and Al Jazeera talks about the Ebola epidemic in "Congo and Uganda," it's like saying because there are wildfires in California, you should cancel a trip to the Grand Canyon because some Californians lit a campfire there. Yes, it is possible it *could* spread and you have to be vigilant, but these two situations are nowhere near the same magnitude.
As of this writing, the only Ugandan death has been the tourism industry.
A few things:
- Speaking English
- Being polite (saying excuse me, please, thank you)
- Smiling
- Using cash
- Looking like you are not about to fight
- Having no visible tattoo(s)
- Putting on shorts or no jacket
Etc
Beer brand managers nowadays don't even enter Kafunda and suprise anyone they find drinking their brand with some free beer.
They don't even drink the brands they are managing.