Trade
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Cooperatives & Communities
MAAIF roots for Matooke value addition
The Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) has pledged to harness opportunities for value addition along the Matooke (banana) value-chain, as government looks to mechanization and modernisation of agriculture in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Pastoralists lose 500 livestock to tick-borne disease in Kaabong
Karimojong pastoralists in Kotido and Kaabong district in north eastern Uganda are currently frustrated by the rampant death of livestock due to tick-borne disease. Over 500 heads of cattle have so far…
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Agriculture
Bunyangabu banana cooperative frustrated by lack of transport as prices continue to plummet
Members of Kasunganyanja Banana Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited in Bunyangabu district have expressed frustration over lack of transport for their bananas as prices drop to as low as Shs 500 per bunch…
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News
City landlords defy Museveni’s directive to reopen arcades
Uganda’s Minister for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Hon. Amelia Kyambadde has expressed dismay with a section of landlords in Kampala who she accuses of defying President Museveni’s directive to allow for safe…
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Mixed reactions as boda bodas allowed to resume passenger transport
There were mixed reactions among bodaboda riders in Gulu district as President Museveni allowed them to resume passenger transport come 27th of this month. While addressing the nation on Tuesday, President Museveni,…
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News
Museveni sets tough conditions for reopening the economy
President Museveni last night further relaxed of COVID-19-related restrictions on the operation of arcades, salons and bodaboda operators, albeit under tough conditions meant to avoid a resurgence of the disease. The president…
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Basongora reject government report in Kasese land feud with UWA
Basongora pastoralists under their organisation, Busunga Cattle Keepers Association, have rejected a government survey report about a contested piece of land that has pitted the community against the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).…
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News
COVID-19 frustrating Cooperatives’ fight against poverty
Kenya’s World Council of Credit Union’s (WOCCU) Country Coordinator, Mark Matabi, has voiced fears that the COVID-19 pandemic is frustrating efforts by the cooperative movement to alleviate poverty and social inequality in…
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East Africa
Gulu bodabodas defy COVID-19 ban on passenger transport, blame ‘hunger’
Members of Gulu City Boda Boda Association have resumed carrying passengers, in total disregard of the ongoing moratorium against them, citing ‘hunger’. When instituting the lockdown in late March, President Yoweri Museveni…
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Kitgum: Farmers, NUSAF official clash over procurement guidelines
Farmers’ groups in Kitgum district have put their NUSAF Desk Officer (NDO) on the spot for allegedly contravening procurement guidelines and inflating costs of items under the Third Northern Uganda Social Action…
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