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Africa
African Development Bank starts feasibility studies on electricity cooperatives
ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOURE: The African Development Bank has kicked off a feasibility study to explore the potential of electricity cooperative business models in Nigeria and Ethiopia. The effort is part of the…
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News
International Day of Cooperatives 2019 Theme Unveiled
The theme of the International Day of Cooperatives 2019 (CoopsDay) is COOPS 4 DECENT WORK. “We are shouting out the message that cooperatives are people-centered enterprises characterized by democratic control that prioritize…
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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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