Poverty
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Cooperatives & Communities
Join SACCOs to develop saving culture, MP urges Bulambuli residents
BULAMBULI – Instead of keeping money in their houses, people should develop a saving culture by joining Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations [SACCOs]. The advice was given by the Bulambuli district Woman…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mbarara market vendors irked as authorities demarcate verandahs
MBARARA-Lock-up owners and other vendors in the newly constructed Mbarara Central Market are castigating the city leadership which has embarked on demarcating verandas to create space for vendors operating on the city…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Don’t become liability to gov’t, FRONASA members warned
GULU-The national vice chairperson Historical League for Greater North, Brig. Gen. Bosco Omure has scoffed at the Front for National Salvation [FRONASA] members in Acholi Sub-region, saying they are more interested in…
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Bishop Kahuma urges youth to be job creators
HOIMA-The Bunyoro Kitara diocese, Rt. Rv. Samuel Kahuma has advised the youth to be Job creators rather than job seekers, saying the youth will continue to be unemployed if they resort to…
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Calls for poverty alleviation dominate New Year messages in Lango
KWANIA– As Ugandans entered the New Year 2023, those in Lango Sub-region were rallied to embrace poverty alleviation programmes initiated by government to kick out poverty from their households. Currently, poverty prevalence…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Prof. Suruma warns beneficiaries against misuse of PDM funds
SHEEMA – The chancellor of Makerere University Prof. Ezra Suruma has appealed to SACCO leaders to arrest beneficiaries who misuse Parish Development Model [PDM] funds. He said this days ago while launching…
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Church leaders urged to embrace gov’t programmes
SOROTI-Church leaders have been urged to embrace government development programmes to boost their financial standing, other than waiting for the donations that are not forthcoming. The remark was made days ago by…
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DINU programme to close next year
The Development Initiative for Northern Uganda [ DINU ], a Euro 150 million programme funded by the European Union [EU] to support interventions in food security, infrastructures and good governance will close…
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International
Debt-service payments put biggest squeeze on poor countries since 2000-World Bank
KAMPALA-The poorest countries eligible to borrow from the World Bank’s International Development Association [IDA] now spend over a tenth of their export revenues to service their long-term public and publicly guaranteed external…
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Tororo SAGE beneficiaries receive cash
TORORO-The elderly in Tororo district benefiting from the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment [SAGE] programme received their monthly stipend on Tuesday. Every month government through SAGE programme gives Shs 25,000 to every…
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