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Finance & Banking
Standard Chartered hosts business executives as it unveils new corporate platform
KAMPALA– Standard Chartered Bank Uganda days ago held a thought leadership event to discuss business immersion in Sustainable Trade Finance for over 100 corporate and SME business leaders at Sheraton Kampala Hotel.…
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Apac: Minister Amongi orders arrest of civil servants over extortion
APAC- The Minster of Gender Labour and Social Development, Betty Amongi, has ordered police to arrest civil servants in Apac district for allegedly extorting money groups in order to consider them for…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Sensitise communities on PDM, minister urges local leaders
FORT PORTAL – The Minister of Tourism and Wildlife Antiquities, Tom Butime has asked leaders to sensitise citizens in their the communities about Parish Development Model [PDM], the socio-economic transformation programme that…
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Adjumani district leaders ask partners to help skill refugees
ADJUMANI– Leaders of Adjumani District have called for support from the development partners to support the skilling of the youths in refugee settlements and host communities to enable the young people to…
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Natural disasters: URCS, Weatherman partner to reduce losses
KAMPALA – The Uganda Red Cross Society [ URCS ] and the Uganda National Meteorological Authority [UNMA] have entered into a partnership, through which the latter will share weather and climate information…
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Kikuube LCIII leaders get motorcycles, asked to popularise PDM
KIKUUBE – Sub-county chairpersons [LCIIIs] in Kikuube district have been challenged to use motorcycles acquired from the government to mobilise communities to embrace the Parish Model Development [ PDM ] and other…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Education takes lion’s share of Gulu district 2022/23 budget
GULU– Gulu District Local Government has approved a budget of Shs 32.9 billion for the 2022/2023 financial year, with the education sector taking a lion’s share of the total budget. The budget…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Oil companies take over land for absentee landlords in Bunyoro
HOIMA – Government has okayed the oil companies to use the land purportedly owned by absentee landlords in the oil-rich Bunyoro sub region. Through the Petroleum Authority of Uganda [PAU], government has…
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Cooperatives & Communities
£200mln invested to transform community businesses
LONDON – More than £200 million has been invested in UK community businesses in the last decade, using community shares – a unique form of finance. And a major fund has re-launched…
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Govt urged to adopt Oxfam GALS approach in Parish Development Model
KAMPALA – Gender activists and human rightists have argued government to adopt Oxfam’s Gender Action Learning System [ GALS ] methodology in implementing the Parish Development Model [PDM]. The methodology tailored by Oxfam…
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