Kwania District
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers In Tears After Suspension Of Livestock Markets
The 42-day suspension of livestock markets announced by President Museveni on June 6 to slow the march of Covid-19 has been greeted with anger and sadness by farmers and dealers locked out…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Youth told: Greed For Money Is Killing You
KWANIA – In a training meeting with youth leaders from Kwania District, Dr Joseph Odongkara Abraham, a former principal commercial judge in the UK, offered some honest advice: “You have remained poor…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kwania Farmers Sign Sorghum Growing Deal
KWANIA – Farmers in Kwania have agreed a deal that effectively leaps sorghum to the front-of-the-line of crops grown on a large scale in the northern district. Several farmers signed up to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCOs Tipped On Playbook For Success
KWANIA – Cooperatives should follow a basic playbook for success which has a blend of good financial character and good governance, Patrick Bura, the District Principal Commercial Officer of Kwania, has said.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kwania District Releases Emyooga Cash
KWANIA –After passing the multi-layered fit-and-proper test, at least four out of 36 Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Kwania district have finally received Shs 30 million each under the Presidential Initiative…
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Microfinance Institutions In Trouble In Kwania
KWANIA –In Kwania and Apac Northern districts Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOs) have become the preferred go-to lenders threatening to lock out microfinance institutions. The SACCOs are drawing in huge numbers…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Abapiri Farmers Lobby For Shs 400m Warehouse
KWANIA –Frustrated by how little farm produce they can stash away, a 450-member group of farmers allied with Abapiri Oil Seed Cooperative Society, in Abapiri Village, in Chawente Sub County, Kwania District…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Budget: Kwania Cooperatives Get Shs 89m
KWANIA –The district local council has allocated Shs 89,378,000 million to run cooperatives next financial year. The money will go to the 14 fully registered Saccos in the Northern district, and 917 Village…
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Tempers flare in Kwania over ‘emyooga money
The long-delayed release of emyooga funds, poverty eradication cash, in Kwania is fanning a wave of raging anger in the Northern District. Aduku Town Council leaders have asked the government to explain…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Aninolal SACCO gets farm inputs from UK-based Lango Association
177 members of Aninolal Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCO), Kwania district, have received farm inputs from Lango Association Living in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Global Support Development Initiative,…
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