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Cooperatives’ Registrar Warns Banks Against Irregular dealings with Under-fire UCA Staff
The Registrar of cooperatives in the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives has warned commercial banks in which Uganda Cooperative Alliance(UCA) has accounts, to take extra effort to authenticate any documents pertaining…
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Government Launches New Fund to Support SACCOs Growth
A new fund to help support small businesses’ earning power and boost the financial standing of Saving and Credit Cooperatives Societies has been announced. In a speech to the populace in the…
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Co-op Bank Records Ksh15.45 Billion Profit
The Co-operative Bank Group on Friday, November 15, reported a pre-tax profit of Ksh15.45 billion for the third quarter of 2019. This was a significant improvement compared to Ksh14.64 billion recorded in the…
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Bugisu Cooperative Union Opens Uganda’s first Cooperative Radio Station
In Eastern Uganda, Bugisu sub region, where literacy remains a substantial barrier to development, radio can reach a large number of poor people because it is affordable and consumes little electricity. On…
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Police investigate the embezzlement of UGX 69M at Nyalit Coop
A police investigation is underway after some members of the Bukwo-based Nyalit Cooperative Society raised a red flag over alleged embezzlement of the cooperative’s funds. The said money, UGX 69 million, is…
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Mwalimu SACCO members query pay deductions
Mwalimu National Sacco members in Western Kenya have threatened to stop their monthly contributions to the Sacco. The members claim that the Sacco has been making unauthorised deductions from their salaries.On Monday,…
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Community Health Workers raise Rwf14 billion in assets
Community Health Workers (CHW), through their cooperatives, have accumulated Rwf11.2 billion in immovable assets, and Rwf3.5 billion in cash deposited in banks, figures from the Ministry of Health show. Their assets are…
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Financial Mismanagement Threatens to ruin Apac Teachers’ SACCO
APAC. Members of Apac Teachers’ Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization are bemoaning the looming collapse of their SACCO due to what they called the mismanagement of the SACCO’s funds by its leaders. The…
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What is the place of Uganda’s farmer in the value chain power relations?
The National Coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh has on several occasions asked a poignant question – Where is the farmer in in the value chain power…
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Global cooperative movement meets in Kigali to discuss development
Participants from 95 countries from around the world have gathered in Kigali for the international cooperative conference that is discussing how to advance socio-economic development through the cooperative movement. Over 1,000 participants…
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