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  • Miss Uganda and StarTimes Brand Ambassador Hannah Karema brings award and registers impressive performance at Miss World in India

    Miss Uganda and StarTimes Brand Ambassador Hannah Karema brings award and registers impressive performance at Miss World in India

    The 2024 Miss World contest came to a close on Saturday, March 9 2024, with UGANDA Winning the Miss World Africa beauty with a purpose (BWAP) award.

    Hannah was beat over 100 contestants for the Miss world crown to the top 2 in Africa and Top 8 most beautiful and competitive in the world overall. Although the Top crown went to Czech Republic’s Krystyna Pyszková, Uganda delivered a strong and impressive impact.

    Miss Uganda’s amazing ability to combine her smashing beauty with her impressive intelligence to articulate her cause earned her an excellent performance on the world stage in Mumbia- India. Ms Karema won hearts of Judges and audience with her fascinatingly articulate story of her upbringing and her resolve through her BWAP’s project, strong enough to earn her the outright winner of Miss World Africa Beauty with a purpose award.

    Hannah Karema who is the current StarTimes Brand Ambassador addressed the Media at StarTimes head offices on Lumumba avenue Kampala city and shared her story about the tough journey during the competitions in India.
    This achievement and the success story of season 1 sets a stage for StarTimes and Miss Uganda Management to embark on Journey to the crown season 2 next month, April 2024 with a high bar.

    As StarTimes, we are proud of our Partnership with Miss Uganda Management, and we congratulate iss Uganda for the performance of Hannah at the Miss World competition. It gave us more resolve to continue investing and promoting local content” Said Bruce Augus CEO StarTimes.

    StarTimes team is gratefully overwhelmed by that joy of seeing the success fruits of our input to demystify and deliver Miss Uganda crown to our people. We are also happy to elevate Miss Uganda back to the top content where it truly belongs. More importantly we are very grateful to Uganda, for supporting, watching and voting for our very own Miss Uganda. This success story up to the Miss world Stage is dedicated to the people of Uganda” Said Kenneth Kazooba ; Vice president , StarTimes.

    The forthcoming Miss Uganda 2024 will be aired on Makula KiKa and Makula Kazzanyo Ku’ Kazzanyo Channels on StarTimes decoder and Mobile App StarTimes ON. Makula KiKa is a variety of entertainment channel while Makula Kazzanyo Ku Kazzanyo is a non-stop Luganda series channel only on StarTimes.

  • New beauty queen crowned at UMA Multipurpose Hall

    New beauty queen crowned at UMA Multipurpose Hall

    There was pomp, glam and glitz as the new Miss Uganda was crowned over the weekend.

    Miss Hannah Karema Tumukunde was crowned Miss Uganda 2023 at a fabulous ceremony held at UMA Multipurpose Hall, Lugogo.

    The colourful event was telecast live on Makula TV exclusive only on StarTimes Uganda who were the main sponsors of the pageant.

    Due to global COVID-19 pandemic, Miss Uganda was last held in July 2019, where Oliver Nakakande was crowned the winner but later (2021) handed the crown to Elizabeth Bagaya who has been the reigning queen ever since.

    The glamorous red carpet-event on Saturday that was attended by the elite in the celebrity world saw the queen crowned.

    The event was hosted by veteran MC Mitch Egwang and Anita Fabiola and saw performances from the likes of Levixone, Jackie Chandiru, B2C Music, among others.

    Over twenty finalists tussled it out in different categories and at the end of the night, Hannah Karema emerged the new beauty queen for the next one year.

    Karema reached the top 5 contestants together with Jerusha Muwanguzi, Jesca Sserwadda, Whitney Martha Ademun, and Prossy Agwang.

    She now takes over from Elizabeth Bagaya who took over from Oliver Nakakande in April 2021 after the latter left the country to pursue her studies.

    The beauty pageant was sponsored by Makula TV, exclusive only on StarTimes, Kezzi Entertainment among others.