Refugees
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International
FC Barcelona, UNHCR ink pact to support refugee children
BARCELONA– Spanish football giants, FC Barcelona have announced a sponsorship deal with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees [UNHCR] that foresees the firm’s logo appearing in front of the men’s and…
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News
South Sudanese refugees establish own Sacco
LAMWO– After failing to access loans from commercial banks and other financial institutions, South Sudanese refugees in Lamwo Refugee Settlement have decided to form their own Paluda Farmers’ Sacco to serve them…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Refugees demand for inclusion in govt programmes
LAMWO– Refugees settled in the three settlement centres in Lamwo district want to benefit from government programmes such as; Uganda Women Entrepreneurship program, (UWEP) and Youth Livelihood Fund, which are geared toward…
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News
Woccu webinar describes efforts to support credit unions in Ukraine
USA – The World Council of Credit Unions (Woccu) and the Regional Credit Union Center (RCUC) for Central and Eastern Europe recently hosted a virtual event to explore the realities on the…
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News
Ugandans among Africans caught up in the horror of the war in Ukraine
KYIV – Africans were among the more than five million refugees who fled the conflict in Ukraine. But even as they attempted to escape the carnage, many Africans were treated like second…
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Cooperatives & Communities
ILO supports establishment of agro-cooperatives in Sudan
KHARTOUM – To improve the income levels and resilience of host and refugee community farmers in Sudan, the International Labour Organisation [ILO] PROSPECTS is supporting the development of agro-cooperatives through training and peer…
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Cooperatives & Communities
UNHCR boss calls for mobilization of funds to support education in refugee settlement areas
HOIMA – The country representative for United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Joel Boutroue, has called for the need to mobilize more funds to support the education of refugees and host…
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Development
More than 31m people likely to face food insecurity and hunger in East Africa
KAMPALA – An estimated 31.4 million people in the Eastern Africa are likely to face acute food insecurity and hunger unless states take appropriate response mechanisms. A regional research report by the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Action Against Hunger Unveils New Farming Projects
KIKUUBE – Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization has unveiled four farming projects worth shs 5 billion in Kikuube District Local Government (KDLG) which will focus on food security in the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Arua, Terego and Madi-okolo districts agree to share Shs 11 bn infrastructure cash
Three west Nile districts of Arua, Terego and Madi-Okollo on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sharing funds worth Shs 11bn from the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development -Additional…
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