The Cooperator News

Co-op accelerated support scheme for values-led and innovative suppliers sees first products reach shelves

LONDON-Co-op launches accelerated support scheme for smaller suppliers with products from the first phase of innovative and values-led businesses hitting the shelves this month. The incubator scheme, known as ‘the Apiary’, works…

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NARO: Museveni’s directive on massive food production bearing fruit

SERERE – The National Agricultural Research Organisation [ NARO ] has started inspecting its projects to ascertain the progress of the recent government interventions on massive food and seed production aimed at…

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Lira pig cooperative in need of money for slaughterhouse

Oniangaber Pig Farmers Cooperative in Lira city have appealed to government and other stakeholders to help them build a modern slaughterhouse so that they are able to market their products better. The…

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Child killed as mudslide hits kitchen in Kabarole district

KABAROLE – A mudslide has hit a kitchen in Kabango village in Karangura Sub-county Kabarole district, killing a one-and-a-half-year-old child and leaving another injured. The incident happened on Sunday night after a…

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Alebtong leaders urged to mobilise SACCOs to benefit from LEGS project

ALEBTONG– The Alebtong district  LC5 chairperson, David Kennedy Odongo has asked village and parish leaders to mobilise the communities to form SACCOs if they are to utilise Shs 3 billion specifically allocated…

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Pakwach district boss lauds youth for demanding better services

PAKWACH – Pakwach district LCV chairperson, Robert Omito Steen has applauded the youth in the district for using activism to demand for better service delivery. Omito said the youth are not a…

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Shs 200mln Emyooga funds unused as Gulu city groups keep away

GULU– A total of Shs 200 million Emyooga seed capital for five different categories of groups in Gulu city is lying idle in the bank accounts, two years after the launch of…

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Over Shs 5.7bln availed to improve tracking of under-immunised and unimmunised children

KAMPALA-The Government of Japan has provided a US$ 1.5 million [ Shs 5,710,860,000] contribution to the United Nations Children’s Agency [UNICEF], to support Uganda to improve tracking of under-immunised and unimmunised children…

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Egyptian gov’t holds press conference on13th Africa Ministerial Cooperative Conference

CAIRO-President of the General Authority for Construction and Housing Cooperatives Hossam Rezq days ago held a press conference to announce details about the hosting by Egypt of the 13th Africa Ministerial Cooperative…

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Africa Investment Forum Market Days 2022 set for early November

ABIDJANI-The third edition of the Africa Investment Market Days is fast approaching, according to its schedule. Taking place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from November 2-4, 2022, the Africa Investment Forum [AIF2022] will…

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