Cooperatives & Communities
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Gulu Market Vendors Locked In Bitter Fight
GULU – The fast sprouting street markets in Gulu city have teed up a fierce battle between vendors in Gulu main market and roadside traders. Vendors in the main market are looking…
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Court Summons Civil Servants Over Forgery
LIRA – Grade One magistrate’s court in Lira has issued summons for three civil servants accused of forging an attendance list of the annual general meeting of Ayago SACCO. The summons were…
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51 SACCOs In Lira Get Emyooga Funds
LIRA –Fifty-one Savings and Credit cooperatives (SACCOs) in the Northern District of Lira have received Shs 30m each under the presidential initiative on job and wealth creation commonly known as Emyooga. Emyooga…
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Budget: Kwania Cooperatives Get Shs 89m
KWANIA –The district local council has allocated Shs 89,378,000 million to run cooperatives next financial year. The money will go to the 14 fully registered Saccos in the Northern district, and 917 Village…
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Zombo Tea Cooperative In Expansion Drive
ZOMBO – Zombo Tea Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited is using a multipronged recruitment push to draw more farmers into the cooperative in its renewed effort to popularize tea growing in the West…
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Museveni gives truck, Money to Gulu sacco
GULU –President Yoweri Museveni has given a Fuso truck and Shs 20m to Gulu Main Market Vendors’ Cooperative Savings and Credit Society Limited –honoring a pledge he made three years ago in…
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Nwoya Farmers Turn To Cashew Nut Growing
NWOYA –Slumping crop prices have shifted farming in the northern district of Nwoya to the high-priced cashew nut. The district recently received 5,714 cashew nut seedlings from the government’s Operation Wealth Creation…
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Kwania boda operators Protest government tax
A government-pushed proposal to levy an extra tax of Shs 50,000 on motorcycles has touched off a fierce debate and protest among members of Kwania Boda Boda Savings and Credit Cooperative Society…
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Rwampara SACCOs Get Nod To Borrow Emyooga Funds
RWAMPARA – April 14 was a day of celebration and a moment of renewed hope for members of saving groups in the Western district of Rwampara after they got the official nod…
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Zombo signs EFOTI deal To improve tea yields
WEST NILE –Tea growing in the West Nile district of Zombo has got an accelerating effort that could boost local production. Zombo Tea Growers’ Cooperative Society and Edwin Tea Foundation Initiative, EFOTI,…
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