Month: June 2021
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Jun- 2021 -30 JuneCooperatives & Communities
Poor Saving Culture Frustrating Emyooga
HOIMA – The window of success for Emyooga, The Presidential Initiative On Job and Wealth Creation, is being narrowed by how little or not, association members are saving especially in Hoima District…
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30 June
Lira Official Interdicted Over Forgery
LIRA – Josephine Alobo, the District Commercial Officer (DCO) of Lira, has been interdicted for forgery as she uttered false documents of a Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO), receiving money by false…
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30 JuneCooperatives & Communities
Masindi Fails To Pay Covid-19 District Task Force
MASINDI – The Covid-19 district task force here has no money to enforce adherence to measures meant to slow the spread of viral disease. In a speech during the recent Covid-19 district…
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30 JuneCooperatives & Communities
Falling Chia Prices Cripple Cooperative
GULU – Paicho Area Cooperative Enterprise is still grounded without any business activity, a year after it was formed with failing chia prices. These prices, once a reliable source of economic growth…
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28 JuneCooperatives & Communities
EACU Unveils Sim-Sim Value Addition Plan
KITGUM – East Acholi Cooperative Union (EACU) plans to use millions of shillings to improve the value of Sim-Sim and put more money in pockets of its farmers. Many EACU farmers grow…
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28 JuneCooperatives & Communities
Fish Feeds Price Farmers Out Of Business
GULU – Expensive fish feeds have forced more than half of the members of West Acholi Integrated Fish Farmers Cooperative Society, WIFFICOS, out of fish farming. WAIFFICOS, a fish farmers’ cooperative, was…
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28 JuneCooperatives & Communities
PWDs on Emyooga: We Are Left Behind
HOIMA – People With Disabilities (PWDs) in Hoima and Kikuube districts say they have been competing with everyone else for Emyooga cash grants and have always been outcompeted because they are poorer…
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28 JuneCooperatives & Communities
Heavy Rains And Hailstorms Batter Amolatar
AMOLATAR – Hailstorms and heavy rains have become more frequent and more intense in the northern district of Amolatar and have almost wiped out entire gardens in Nakatiti parish, Muntu Sub County.…
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28 JuneCooperatives & Communities
Lockdown: Criminal Gangs Terrorize Gulu
GULU – Livestock farmers in Gulu District are wrestling with a spate animal and poultry thefts carried out by criminal gangs taking advantage of the new lockdown announced on June 18 to…
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25 JuneCooperatives & Communities
New Market Swells Demand For Mangoes in Gulu
GULU – Farmers in the northern district of Gulu District are happy about a new market at Gulu University Faculty of Agriculture that has swelled demand for mangoes. The university’s faculty of…
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