Energy & Mining
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Crédit Agricole to stop financing gas and oil sector
PARIS– French co-operative bank, Crédit Agricole, has announced commitments to move away from oil and gas financing. ‘2025 Ambitions’ sets out a number of short, medium and long-term goals for France’s second…
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Robust reforms have revitalized co-operative sector in Kenya- President Kenyatta
NAIROBI-Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has attributed the rapid growth of the cooperative sector in his country to the policy reforms the government has implemented since 2013. The President noted that the reforms…
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Cooperative official urges govt of Nigeria on collaboration
ABUJA– As the world marks 2022 International Cooperative Day today [Saturday], the President of Cooperative Federation of Nigeria [CFN] and International Cooperative Alliance-Africa, Chief Oriyomi Ayeola has called on Federal and state…
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With a billion members worldwide, cooperatives are a force to reckon with
KAMPALA-The cooperative movement is made up of over three million cooperatives with approximately one billion members worldwide from all sectors and regions, according to the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA]. As cooperatives are…
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ICA President wishes world happy 100th International Day of Cooperatives
KAMPALA– The President of the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] Ariel Guarco in his 2022 #CoopsDay video message has wished the world a happy 100th International Day of Cooperatives. “We are making the…
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Kapelebyong district kicks off baseline data collection exercise
KAPELEBYONG -Kapelebyong district has launched a two-week exercise of baseline data collection to inform government’s implementation of the Parish Development Model [PDM], with a call on locals to embrace it. The exercise…
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Security deployed to guard Masaka forest reserves
MASAKA– Uganda People’s Defence Forces [UPDF] officers and Environmental Police have been deployed to protect three forest reserves of Manwa, Jubiya, and Mujuzi in Bukakata Subcounty and Namirembe Forest Reserve in Kyanamukaka Subcounty…
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Industrialisation: Mbarara city leaders woo Madhvani Group with free land
MBARARA– Mbarara city leadership is willing to offer free land to Madhvani Group of Companies to establish factories in a bid to boost the industrialization of the city and the western region…
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Ariel Guarco retains ICA presidency
SEVILLE– The members of the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] have renewed the mandate of Ariel Guarco for the next four years. From a total of 779 total votes, Guarco has been re-elected…
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UBOS, ICT Ministry undertake PDM baseline data collection
KAMPALA– Uganda Bureau of Statistics [UBOS] in partnership with the Ministry of ICT & National Guidance has announced the ongoing process of baseline data collection to inform the government’s implementation of the…
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