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Busia Gold Miners asked to cooperate
Gold miners in Busia district have been asked to form savings and credit cooperative societies to enable them to benefit from efforts to institutionalize the sub-sector. The district chairman Geoffrey Wandera said…
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How coffee gave birth to the Banyankole Kweterana cooperative society
Coffee came to Mbarara in the 1930s, with the hilly ranges providing pasture and fertile soils to support herding and cultivation. Earlier attempts by the colonial government to introduce a cash crop…
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Bududa elderly venture into coffee production
The Bududa district older persons Sacco is venturing in coffee production to rip from increased coffee price, set as a result of rivalry between Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) and a German company.…
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Co-op to introduce ‘scan and go’ app, customers can skip checkout
BRITAIN: Co-op is trialing a new “scan and go” app that allows shoppers to scan groceries on their phones and leave the store without visiting a checkout. The co-op has partnered with Mastercard which will…
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Cooperative Federalism is in Danger: Yashwant Sinha
BHUBANESWAR, India: India’s former Union Finance minister Yashwant Sinha has said Cooperative federalism was in danger in the country. The state should get a fair deal and the people sitting in Delhi…
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Bishop who embezzled USD9m belonging to Kenyan SACCO to Lose Property
NAIROBI, Kenya: Authorities on Thursday ordered Kiambu politician and county official David Kariuki Ngare’s assets seized to recover Sh1 billion he allegedly illegally withdrew from Ekeza Sacco to fund his lifestyle. An…
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Kenyan SACCO protest Increased Tax on Member Dividends
Embu, Kenya: Members of the cooperative movement in Embu County, in Kenya, have raised concern that increasing tax on member dividends could hurt Saccos and the saving culture in the country. The…
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Dry season hits Hoima Coffee farmers hard
Coffee farmers in Hoima are struggling to cope with the dry season as most of the farmers had just planted coffee distributed to them by Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA and under operation…
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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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Annual Africa Shared Value Summit to be held in Nairobi
NAIROBI, Kenya, This year’s Africa Shared Value Summit will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 23rd and 24th of May 2019 at the Radisson Blu Hotel Among the keynote speakers, this…
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