Lira City
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Lira City bans vendors, hawkers from streets
LIRA – Authorities of Lira City have banned market vendors, produce dealers and hawkers from transacting any business on pavements, walkways and streets. According to the Town Clerk of Lira City, Edward Kiwanuka…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lango disabled persons receive 700 wheelchairs and walking sticks and frames
LIRA – Community Focus International (CFI), a community-based organization in Lira City has donated a total of 700 assistive devices to persons with disability to ease mobility, participation in community activities and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
20 cattle die of suspected poisoning in Lira City
LIRA – A total of 20 cattle from Ngetta ginnery in Anyangapuc ward, Lira City East division, Lira City have died after taking water that is suspected to have been contaminated with…
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Cooperatives & Communities
All Saints University Lango gets two tractors worth Shs 800m
LIRA – The government has donated two tractors to All Saints University- Lango to boost its agricultural training program as they plan to open a Faculty of Agriculture. The tractors worth Shs 800…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Produce SACCO requests MSC to probe Emyooga
LIRA – Lira Produce Dealers Cooperative Saving and Credit Society in Lira City have expressed their frustration to access emyooga funds. The members numbering 180 say, the program which was targeting low-income…
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Cooperatives & Communities
A Shs35b World Bank road project starts in Lira
LIRA – The World Bank funded program of upgrading roads in Lira City under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) has kicked off after months of delay. The contract worth Shs 35b…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira City based Asian investors defrauded of Shs 9b
LIRA – Asian investors dealing in oil seeds and milling in Lira City have been defrauded of Shs 9b after supplying soya beans, sunflower and cotton to Agri Exim Uganda Limited and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira City Vendors Shun Directive To Spend Nights In Markets
LIRA – Vendors selling foodstuffs in Lira City have disregarded a directive by President Yoweri Museveni to spend nights in markets as a measure to control the spread of Covid-19, as Uganda…
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Lira Official Interdicted Over Forgery
LIRA – Josephine Alobo, the District Commercial Officer (DCO) of Lira, has been interdicted for forgery as she uttered false documents of a Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO), receiving money by false…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Vendors Protest Eviction
LIRA – Vendors in Lira City have continued to rally against their eviction from the streets. On June 17, city authorities resolved to suspend street vending because it draws crowds, which are…
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