Cooperatives & Communities
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Wazalendo SACCO commissions commercial building in Fort Portal City
FORT PORTAL, August 12, 2024 – The Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society [ WSACCO ] Limited has commissioned a new commercial building located on Balya Street in Fort Portal City to…
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Kenya’s SASRA implements whistleblowing policy to promote ethical governance and combat fraud
NAIROBI, August 10, 2024 – Kenya’s SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority [ SASRA ] has introduced a Whistleblowing Policy aimed at addressing misconduct at all levels of SACCO operations. This policy underscores SASRA’s…
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Banyankole Kweterana finally receives Shs 9bln for ranch compensation
MBARARA City, August 9, 2024 – Banyankole Kweterana Cooperative Union [BKCU] in Mbarara City has finally received over Shs 9.55 billion from the Finance ministry as compensation for its ranch taken over…
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FDC defector Tayebwa now Assistant Commissioner of Cooperative Development!
BUSHENYI, August 9, 2024 – The former Member of Parliament for Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, Odo Tayebwa who recently defected from the Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] to the ruling National Resistance Movement [NRM]…
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Oyam PWDs decry irregularities in implementation of PDM
OYAM, August 8, 2024 – Persons with Disabilities [PWDs] in Oyam district have raised concern over irregularities in the implementation of the Parish Development Model [PDM] in the district, stating that they…
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War loss compensation: DPP wants lawyers arrested over loss of Busoga Growers Cooperative Union’s money
KAMPALA, August 7, 2024 – The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala to issue a warrant of arrest against two lawyers who are accused…
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Namutumba officials remanded over theft of PDM cash
NAMUTUMBA, August 7, 2024 – Three Parish Development Model [PDM] leaders in Namutumba district were yesterday remanded to prison on charges of obtaining money by false pretence. They were arrested by the…
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Money lenders in Lira City arrested over retaining clients’ national IDs as collateral
LIRA CITY, August 6, 2024 – Police in Lira City West Division have arrested three money lenders in Lira City for allegedly keeping the national identity cards [IDs] of their clients as…
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WOCCU to boost credit union business lending in Ukraine through USAID GROW Project
MADISON, Wis., August 6, 2024 — The World Council of Credit Unions [ WOCCU ] will continue its work to strengthen credit unions in Ukraine by helping them provide more business lending…
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Global annual coffee exports up 3. 8 percent
KAMPALA, August 6, 2024 – Global green bean exports in June 2024 totalled 9.78 million bags, as compared with 9.43mln bags exported in the same month of the previous year, up 3.8…
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