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Development
UDB’s Shs 2.45trn helped anchor Uganda’s growth in 2021-report
KAMPALA– Uganda Development Bank [ UDB ], the country’s national development finance institution days ago released its 2021 Direct Impact [DI] Report highlighting the fundamental role that the Bank continues to play toward…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Onek warns politicians against politicising PDM
AMURU-The Minister for Refugees and Disaster Preparedness in the Office of the Prime Minister Hillary Onek has warned politicians in Amuru district against politicking and discouraging locals in the district from participating…
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International
Africa and the Caribbean to firm cooperation via regional development banks
KAMPALA– Economic ties between Africa and the Caribbean took a strong upward turn this week as the regions’ premier financial institutions—the African Development Bank [AfDB] and the Caribbean Development Bank—came together to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cooperatives shun joining agricultural insurance
GULU – Cooperators under West Acholi Cooperative Union, covering Gulu, Omoro, Amuru, Nwoya districts, and Gulu City, have shunned joining agricultural insurance, according to officials. In the financial year, 2016/2017, the agricultural…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mbarara district officials tasked to refund over Shs 5mln
MBARARA- Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee [PAC] has grilled the Mbarara district Chief Administrative Officer Edward Kasagara [CAO] and Principal Human Resource Officer Allan Kagaba for causing the district a financial loss of…
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News
Shs 435bln project to create 12,000 jobs in Uganda
LIRA– A new government project to enhance technological skills in the young people is to begin soon and is expected to create 12,000 job opportunities in Uganda. The project, ‘National Science, Technology,…
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News
Govt needs Shs 47bln to procure road equipment
SOROTI– There was a lot of excitement among members of the public in 2016, when the 10th Parliament under the stewardship of the former speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, now the First Deputy…
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Northern
UNDP, KOICA launch construction of three markets in refugee hosting districts
ADJUMANI – The United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] in partnership with the Korean International Cooperation Agency-KOICA launched the construction of markets in each of the three refugee hosting districts in Northern Uganda. The…
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