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Development
Existence of two Cooperative Banks shocks Katuntu led committee
A team of Cooperative Bank shareholders including Uganda Cooperative Alliance, Banyankole Kweterana Cooperative Union, Sebei Cooperative Union, West Mengo Cooperative Union, Kigezi Cooperative Union, and Nyakatonzi Cooperative Union; their legal and Research…
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Eastern
Who ate the Cooperative Bank? Grab Your Copy of The Cooperator Magazine, Out Now!
You can get yourself a copy of The Cooperator Magazine from our sales agents/vendors and supermarkets countrywide. PRICE IS UGX 5000, KSH 150, RWF 1200, TSH 4000, USD 2 For more details contact…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Stop multiple borrowing and misuse of loans from SACCOs, teachers advised
In a bid to benefit from loans, teachers have been advised to desist from misusing loans they acquire from banks and Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs), and instead make good use…
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Eastern
Abarata Kere SACCO administrators on the spot over missing UGX 130 million
More than 80 members of Abarata Kere Savings and Credit Cooperative in Kanyum sub-county, Kumi district, want the SACCO administrators probed over alleged embezzlement. The members accuse their administrators of embezzling savings…
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Africa
KENYA: 20 SACCOs risk closure for imposing leaders on members
– Some were also put on spot for giving fair elections a wide berth and imposing leaders on members – They were urged to align themselves with the laws governing cooperatives or…
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Africa
ZAMBIA: 30 dairy cooperatives receive seed, fertiliser
NALISHEBO NAMAIKO, Lusaka: Thirty dairy cooperatives from four provinces have received pasture seed and fertilizer under input distribution exercise for the 2018/2019 farming season. The Dairy Association of Zambia (DAZ) said the…
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News
How a series of disasters led one entrepreneur to a life of cooperatives
After a catastrophic earthquake devastated Guatemala on Feb. 4, 1976, Lorena Giron, who was just twelve years old at the time, was trapped under the rubble of her collapsed apartment for hours.…
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Development
.coop to remain exclusive domain for Cooperatives for the next decade
.coop will remain the exclusive domain name for co-operatives for the next decade. Dot Cooperation LLC (Dot Coop) has renewed its contract with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for…
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Eastern
Elders SACCO go cage farming in a bid to strengthen income flow
The recently launched Busia district elder person’s SACCO is in the process of undertaking cage farming as an enterprise to strengthen the organization’s income. Some of the institutional members of the SACCO…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Commercial officer Katakwi decry rate at which SACCOs are collapsing
By Alexander Okori A total of 36 savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) have collapsed in Katakwi district due to poor saving culture, poor governance and mismanagement of funds, The Cooperator News has…
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