Training
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO leaders urged to intensify member training
MBARARA, October 23, 2023 – Officials running Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies [SACCOs] in western Uganda have been encouraged to train their members regularly so that they appreciate the business model of…
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National
Seven-year jail sentence for vets causing death to animals
KAMPALA – Veterinary practitioners whose licences are revoked but continue to practice and in the process cause death to animals or humans face a seven-year jail sentence, or fine of Shs 10…
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East Africa
Don’t base your success on dividends -Kenyan SACCOs told
NAIROBI-Professionals in the Kenyan cooperative sector have appealed to their government to regulate dividend payment in SACCO sub-sector, to separate their success from dividends, according to local media outlets in the country.…
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News
Veterinarians launch training and exhibitions for livestock farmers
MASAKA-Veterinarians under the umbrella of Uganda Veterinary Association [UVA] have launched a series of regional training and exhibitions for livestock farmers. The President of UVA Central Chapter, Dr. Ismail Asiimwe while commissioning…
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East Africa
Radical changes in the draft Co-operatives Bill
NAIROBI-Co-operative Societies will soon be allowed to sell and purchase members’ shares and trade capital instruments through a Co-operatives platform if the Cooperatives Bill 2021 is passed. If the Bill is passed…
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News
Land issues: Talking Books provide innovative solution to reach rural communities
KAMPALA – Dramatic dialogue, music and poetry are not the usual ways that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] raises awareness of and sensitizes rural communities on women’s land rights, but…
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International
New tool to boost cooperative innovation in Uruguay launched
MONTEVIDEO -Uruguayan cooperatives have launched a new tool to foster knowledge sharing among cooperatives and boost innovation. Named Canvas, the tool structures thinking and helps to include different elements in project design processes…
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Energy & Mining
Over 100 youth in Bunyoro qualify to train as truck drivers in oil and gas sector
HOIMA– 110 youth from Bunyoro Kitara kingdom have a reason to smile after they qualified to learn to drive heavy trucks that will be used in the oil and gas sector. The…
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Agriculture
Ugandan Okori appointed new RUFORUM Executive Secretary
Professor Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture [RUFORUM] Board Chair and Vice Chancellor University of Bamenda in Cameroon, has announced the appointment of Dr. Patrick Okori as…
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News
TotalEnergies to address gender issues in Albertine Graben
MASINDI -TotalEnergies Uganda has contracted Net Worth Company Limited to provide gender management services in the six districts affected by the Tilenga Project in the oil-rich Albertine graben. The districts include Masindi,…
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