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UPDF closes Ayera landing site over unlicenced fishing boats
KWANIA – The Uganda People’s Defence Force [UPDF] fisheries protection unit has closed Ayera landing site in Atongtidi Sub-county in Kwania district over unlicenced fishing boats operating on Lake Kwania. The closure…
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Cooperatives & Communities
WSACCO ready to spend heavily on supplies
KAMPALA-Uganda’s leading SACCO-Wazalendo SACCO [ WSACCO ] is ready to spend more money on services and tangible goods if were are to go by a running newspaper advert shared by its CEO…
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East Africa
Returned South Sudanese refugees break ground at farm cooperative
JUBA-Working with a purpose, returned South Sudanese refugees hope to grow crops at sufficient scale to lift themselves and their community out of a hand-to-mouth existence of grinding poverty in one of…
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Excitement as Bar Aviation launches flight to Adjumani
ADJUMANI: Residence of Adjumani town were excited over the weekend as Bar Aviation launched its first flight from Kajansi Airfield in Kampala to Adjumani Airport. The airline’s twelve-seater capacity Cessna Caravan plane…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masaka Emyooga beneficiaries laud govt for providing seed capital
MASAKA– Women, journalists and youth leaders of Emyooga SACCOs in Masaka City have praised the government-owned Microfinance Support Centre [MSC], saying the money received as seed capital from the agency to do…
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Environment
Ibanda Municipality seeks Shs 4.5bln to work on dangerous gullies
IBANDA-Ibanda Municipality badly needs Shs 4.5 billion to address the problem of soil erosion that has created dangerous gullies in the town, putting people’s lives at risk. According to Apollo Kibeherere, mayor…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kikuube farmers take up cashew nuts growing
KIKUUBE-After encountering several challenges in sugarcane growing, some farmers in Kikuube district have decided to grow cashew nuts, with the expectation that the business will be profitable and improve their lives. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fishermen on lakes Kwania and Kyoga find hope in Emyooga
KWANIA-Hope has been restored in the lives of over 11,000 fishermen on Lake Kwania and Lake Kyoga after benefiting from Emyooga funds that were disbursed to them to boost their fishing activities.…
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Mayhem in Kasese with 16 dead, six injured and one missing in tell-tale flooding
The Tuesday mudslide coming after a heavy downpour in Kasese district’s Rukooki sub-county has left 16 people confirmed dead as rescue workers continue to look for bodies under the debris. Some six…
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Hunger looms in Katakwi district as floods destroy farms
KATWAKI– A food crisis in Katakwi district is likely to worsen as floods occasioned by the ongoing heavy rains continue to devastate the area, leaving several hectares of different crops on farms…
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