Joshua Nahamya
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Development
Many SACCOs face collapse in 2021- Expert
2021 is likely to see the collapse of many Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs), Leonard Okello, Executive Director of the Uhuru Institute, has predicted. The institute is a leading provider of…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kashari traders beg government to re-open cattle markets
Traders in Kyenshama Trading Centre in Kashari North Constituency have requested government to think about reopening of cattle markets. Kyenshama cattle market, which previously operated every Friday, was officially closed on March…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Heavy rains ravage Rwampara, farmers advised to plant trees
Residents of 7 villages in Rwampara district have called for emergency relief after heavy rain washed away gardens of crops in the area. Steven Tuhumure, the LC II chairperson Nyarundagazi parish explained…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Teacher arrested for impersonating cooperatives’ officials
Police in Mbarara yesterday morning arrested a secondary school teacher for allegedly ripping off a number of cooperatives around Mbarara City. Julius Twinomugisha, a teacher at St. Victor Secondary School in Buhweju…
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East Africa
Meet Jane Baganda, the HR boss who quit office job for livestock farming
Six years after Jane Baganda, a former Human Resource Officer, quit her desk job for life as a farmer, she says she has no regrets. In her former life, Baganda, a resident…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Minister orders arrest of Ruharo SACCO officials over embezzlement
The State minister for Micro Finance Haruna Kasolo Kyeyune has ordered the arrest of Ruharo Heifer Project SACCO officials for alleged embezzlement of SACCO funds worth 140m shillings. Hon. Kasolo made the…
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News
Popular Mbarara market burns down, arson suspected
Several traders who lost their merchandise in the Saturday July 11 conflagration that engulfed Nyamityobora market suspect that the popular market was deliberately torched by motivated individuals, despite the police’s insistence that…
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News
Newly born Mbarara City rocked by political infighting
Barely a week after it was elevated to city status, Mbarara finds itself embroiled in a leadership battle that could test the cohesiveness of the new administrative unit. On July 1 this…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mixed fortunes for farmers as post-COVID-19 economy begins to look up
Farmers and agricultural investors from different sectors are enjoying mixed fortunes as the economy begins to recover in the wake of a gradual easing of the COVID-19 related lockdown. While prices in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
COVID-19 delays completion of Mbarara City market
Traders in Mbarara municipality will have to wait till mid next year for the completion of the highly anticipated new Mbarara Central Market following yet another extension of the project’s completion date…
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