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Amina Moghe Hersi (Aamina Mooge Xirsi)
Amina Moghe Hersi (born 1964 in Bungoma, Kenya) is a Somali entrepreneur based in Uganda. She moved her hardware business to Kampala in 1996, built the Oasis Mall and Laburnam Courts apartments, and through Horyal Investments began building the Atiak sugar factory in northern Uganda in 2016. She was named Woman Investor of the Year in 2008.
Amina Moghe HersiAmina Hersi Moghe · Aamina Mooge Xirsi
- Lived
- 1964 to today
- Known as one of
- Business founders
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
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Who is she?
Amina Moghe Hersi is a Somali entrepreneur born in 1964 in Bungoma, western Kenya (Wikipedia, Amina Moghe Hersi). Her mother was a businesswoman, and as a girl she joined the family's cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda (same source). She and her sister went to accounting school (same source). See Somalis in Kenya.
Business in Uganda
She closed her hardware store in Bungoma and opened one in Kampala after 1996 (Wikipedia). She moved into property and built the Oasis Centre shopping mall and the Laburnam Courts apartments in central Kampala (same source). She also became one of Uganda's largest distributors of cement and hardware (same source). In 2008 she received the Woman Investor of the Year award (same source). See Somalis in Uganda.
As of 2018 her holdings were organised under Horyal Investments Holding Company, including Oasis Mall, Nakumatt Mall, Laburnam Apartments and the Atiak sugar factory (same source).
Atiak sugar factory
In 2016 her company began building the Atiak sugar factory in Amuru District, northern Uganda, a project of about 120 million US dollars (Wikipedia). It was described as the first large industrial project in northern Uganda, with more than 6,000 local women expected to benefit as cane growers and distributors (same source).
In short
A Kenyan-born Somali businesswoman who built shopping centres in Kampala and a sugar factory in northern Uganda.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Amina Moghe Hersi · en.wikipedia.org
Amina Moghe HersiAmina Hersi Moghe · Aamina Mooge Xirsi
- Lived
- 1964 to today
- Known as one of
- Business founders
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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