Kikuube district
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers’ Groups Get A Value Addition Project
KIKUUBE – Kikuube district local government has launched a Shs 850 million project which will facilitate farmer groups to add value to their maize and rice produce. The project is funded through…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima Sugar Company Limited Accused Of Grabbing Farmers’ Land
KIKUUBE – Residents of Rwekobe and Rwembaho villages in Kabwoya Sub-County, Kikuube district have accused Hoima Sugar Company Limited (HSCL), an Indian owned company for grabbing their land for sugarcane growing. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Leaders Tasked To Sort Emyooga Program Challenges
KIKUUBE – Dr. Emmanuel Aliba Kiiza, the board chairman of the Microfinance Support Centre (MSC) has directed all district Emyooga task forces to find a way of sorting out challenges affecting the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fishing Community On Lake Albert Cries For Help
HOIMA – Fishermen on Lake Albert in Hoima and Kikuube districts have appealed to the government to intervene into the continued attacks by Congolese militiamen. Fishermen on shores of Lake Albert have…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fishermen Shot By Congolese Militiamen
HOIMA – Three fishermen operating their fishing activities on Nsunzu B and Bugoma landing site on the shores of Lake Albert in Buhuka parish, Kyangwali Sub-County Kikuube District, are nursing bullet wounds…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PWDs on Emyooga: We Are Left Behind
HOIMA – People With Disabilities (PWDs) in Hoima and Kikuube districts say they have been competing with everyone else for Emyooga cash grants and have always been outcompeted because they are poorer…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers Launch Push To Save Bugoma Forest
KIKUUBE – The continued destruction of Bugoma Forest Reserve by Hoima Sugar Limited has stirred a heave of anger among farmers in the western district of Kikuube. Angry local communities recently launched…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Businessman Arrested For Oil Roads Fuel Theft
KIKUUBE – Ronald Amanya, a spare parts dealer in Hoima town, has been arrested with 40 jerry cans of fuel in a sweeping police crackdown on a gang for fuel theft from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
District Chairman Vows To Revive Cooperatives
KIKUUBE – Peter Banura took the oath on May 24 as the first elected chairman of Kikuube District and pledged to revive cooperatives to their full glory and riches. In his maiden…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Sugarcane Outgrowers Crying Foul
KIKUUBE – Complaints over mistreatment and missed payments are sparking friction between sugarcane outgrowers and their employer, Hoima Sugar Limited in the western districts of Kikuube and Hoima. Francis Isingoma alias Max…
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