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Cancer experts appeal for regional children cancer centers
UGANDA – Cancer experts are appealing for regional children cancer centers in the country. Currently, the only cancer treatment center for children is at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Dr Fadhil Geriga, a…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Why Zimbabwe’s ‘great river people’ feel cut off from their trade
ZIMBABWE – BaTonga tribe traditionally made their living fishing along the Zambezi River and Lake Kariba. But expensive permits and national fishing industry regulations are impeding their way of life. Farai Matiashe…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Older persons demand inclusion in the Parish Development Model
LIRA – Older persons in Lira district, have called upon the government for inclusion in the Parish Development Model and Emyooga programme. They say they are able and still economically productive more…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Leveraging Ugandan food systems to attain SDGs by 2030
The Secretary-General of the United Nations will convene a Food Systems Summit in September, 2021 in a bid to accelerate the implementation of the Decade of Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masindi Municipality Councilors question delayed disbursement of Shs 273 million to beneficiaries
MASINDI – Masindi Municipality Councillors have questioned the delayed disbursement of Shs 273 million meant for different groups engaged in different activities in the municipality. The money was sent to Masindi municipality…
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Cooperatives & Communities
OWC to focus on technical and political leaders and not NAADS officers in their project implementation
SOROTI – Leaders of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) have decided to change strategy by moving away from engaging National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) officers to engaging technical and political leaders in their…
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Finance & Banking
Banks endorse government plans to take idle cash on dormant accounts
KAMPALA – The Uganda Bankers’ Association (UBA) has endorsed the government plans to take cash considered “idle or dormant accounts” in all banks. In the new National Payments Systems Bill 2020, the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
National Drug Authority impounds counterfeit drugs worth millions of shillings in Acholi sub region
GULU – The National Drug Authority (NDA) has closed 110 drug shops and impounded counterfeit drugs in Acholi sub-region worth Shs 55.2 million. The three-day operation was held in the region from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Government injects Shs 408m for the construction of post-harvest storage facilities in Soroti
SOROTI – The government through the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) has injected Shs 408, 293,723 for the construction of post-harvest storage and value addition facilities in Soroti district.…
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