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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Taxi Operators Protest High Taxes
GULU – Gulu Taxi Operators and Transporters’ Cooperative members staged a protest recently at the office of the city resident commissioner to draw attention to what they called high monthly taxes slapped…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Main Market On Brink Of Ruin
LIRA – Business in the new Lira Main Market is limping and troubled, six years after the market was officially opened in 2015. Business in the market has edged down and traders…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Aduku Council Boss Warns Boda-Boda Riders
ADUKU – Obaya Keny James, the town clerk of Aduku Town Council, has told boda-boda riders that their life of pleasures must be tempered with caution. He said their knack for lavish…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cattle Rustling Derails Farming In Lamwo
LAMWO – Cattle rustling has soared in Agoro Sub County, Lamwo District. It has diminished the oxen herd and subsequently frustrated commercial farming in the area. Francis Todwong, the LC-I chairman of…
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News
Heavy Rains Worry Cassava Farmers
PADER – The unrelenting heavy rains battering Pader District are threatening to wipe out the livelihoods of cassava farmers in the northern district. Cassava farmers allied to Acholi- bur Cooperative Society in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Join Cooperatives To Defeat Middlemen
OMORO – Middlemen, according to farmers in Omoro District, are raking in all the profits and paying peanuts for unprocessed millet, sorghum, maize and soya-beans. The farmers claim they have fallen easy…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Sugarcane Out-growers Plant Cashew Nuts
AMURU – Sugarcane out-growers in the northern district of Amuru have broken with tradition – they have added cashew nuts to their outgrowing enterprise. Atiak Sugarcane out-growers Cooperative Society Limited has grown…
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO Demands Leadership Audit
SHEEMA – Members of Kitagata Savings and Credit Co-Operative Society have signed a petition urging the Chief Executive Officer of Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority, UMRA, to audit the SSACCO leadership. In their…
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Internal Fights Rock FRONASA Cooperative
OMORO – On the issue of membership, some members of the Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) cooperative in Omoro District have now taken positions that are at odds with the mainstream leadership…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Women Groups Applications For Cash Drop In Lira
LIRA – Applications for cash grants by women groups to Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program (UWEP) are on the decline in the northern district of Lira, we are told. UWEP was launched in…
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