Poverty
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News
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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News
ANT on campaign to empower youth with entrepreneurial skills
SOROTI-The Alliance for National Transformation [ ANT ] has embarked on training the youth to acquire entrepreneurial skills. While speaking to the youth at Asegra Hotel in Oderai ward, Soroti City former ANT…
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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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Cooperatives & Communities
Agricultural investment: Teso youth ask for tractors at gathering
SOROTI – Thousands of youth from the 11 districts of Teso Sub-region have asked government to provide them with modern agricultural implements like tractors and others to help them increase agricultural output.…
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International
Honduran coffee farmers hope for a brighter future
TEGUCIGALPA-Honduran coffee has been a good news story, it is an important export, and it is well regarded worldwide for its flavoursome speciality beans, but it is under threat from climate change.…
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Agriculture
Kasese farmers count losses as strange disease ravages banana plantations
KASESE – Banana farmers in Kasese district are counting losses after a strange viral disease attacked their plantations, exposing the farmers’ households to hunger and poverty. Agricultural experts in the district say…
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International
ICA welcomes new members in 2022
LONDON-The International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] recently welcomed two members in September: Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito CACEENP Limitada from Honduras and Coopérative Centrale d’épargne et de crédit du Kivu [COOCEC-KIVU] from the…
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Africa
AfDB approves US$ 3mln in additional financing for Liberia’s Special Agro-Processing Zone scheme
ABIDJANI – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank [AfDB]Group has approved an additional $3 million of mixed financing for the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone project in Liberia. The financing,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni impressed by Emyooga, insists PDM will be funded
ENTEBBE– President Museveni has encouraged Ugandans to embrace government development programmes such as Emyooga and others if they are to get out of poverty. Museveni made the remarks recently while addressing the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Forgive us our sins: Rwampara, Ngora officials return stolen PDM cash
MBARARA-Rwampara District Chief Administrative Officer, Stephen Rubaihayo and District Production Officer, Athanathias Gumisiriza have returned Parish Development Model [PDM] cash they had stolen after they were arrested by police. The arrest followed…
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