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FDC defector Tayebwa now Assistant Commissioner of Cooperative Development!
BUSHENYI, August 9, 2024 – The former Member of Parliament for Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, Odo Tayebwa who recently defected from the Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] to the ruling National Resistance Movement [NRM]…
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War loss compensation: DPP wants lawyers arrested over loss of Busoga Growers Cooperative Union’s money
KAMPALA, August 7, 2024 – The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala to issue a warrant of arrest against two lawyers who are accused…
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World: Fund to support cooperative development to be launched this December
LONDON, August 4, 2024 – A new International Cooperative Development Fund [ICDF] to support cooperation worldwide is scheduled to be launched in the United Kingdom [UK]in December. Announced at the UK’s Coop…
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Earning more from dairy farming: Gulu farmers trained to make yogurt
GULU, July 31, 2024 – At least 300 farmers from two cooperatives in Patiko Subcounty, Gulu district have been trained to make yogurt at home, and earn more money from dairy farming.…
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Museveni fires embattled Ssali as Trade Ministry PS
KAMPALA, July 26, 2024: President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Alex Kakooza as the new Permanent Secretary [PS] for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives [MTIC]. Kakooza fills the vacuum left by…
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East Africa
Conflicts: Women Coffee farmers in DR Congo’s Ituri Province wrestle with an uncertain future
ITURI, July 23, 2024 – Kavira Matsetse, a widow and mother of eight, inherited her coffee plantation in Biakato, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province, nearly a decade ago. The…
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Poverty alleviation: Buganda Kingdom urges govt to priotise cooperatives
MASAKA, July 22, 2024 – Buganda kingdom has advised government that ending poverty in communities will not be achieved if poverty alleviation programmes like Emyooga and the Parish Development Model [PDM] are not…
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Cooperatives’ money: Trade ministry PS Geraldine Ssali arraigned in Anti-Corruption Court
KAMPALA, July 18, 2024: Geraldine Ssali Busuulwa, the Permanent Secretary [PS] in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives [MTIC] has been brought to the Anti-Corruption Court in Kololo, Kampala after her…
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UCA urges Ugandans to embrace cooperatives
KAMPALA, July 16, 2024 – Uganda Cooperative Alliance [ UCA ] has called upon Ugandans to embrace cooperatives if the country is to have socioeconomic transformation. Speaking during the prayers held for…
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Cooperatives & Communities
UN holds soft-launch event for the 2025 UN International Year of Cooperatives
NEW YORK, July 11, 2024 – The International Year of Cooperatives [IYC2025] celebrations kicked on Tuesday with a soft-launch event at the UN headquarters in New York. The event was organised by…
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