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SACCOs Moot Members’ Reverification to Combat Multiple Borrowing

Managers of Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) in Sembabule district are calling for strict enforcement of governing regulations to combat multiple memberships in the districts’ SACCOs, saying it is […]

Stronger Regulations Needed for Mushrooming SACCOs -Mbale Mayor

MBALE: Mbale Mayor Hajji Zandya Mutwalib Mafabi has called upon the Government to ensure stronger regulations to guide the formation and operations of hundreds of Savings and Credit cooperative societies(SACCOs) […]

What is the place of Uganda’s farmer in the value chain power relations?

The National Coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh has on several occasions asked a poignant question – Where is the farmer in in the […]

Government to Support the Recovery of North Bukedi Cooperative Union

BUDAKA: The ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives has embarked on a program to revive the collapsing North Bukedi Cooperative Union [NBCU] by actively reviving all the dead primary societies […]

Banyankole Kweterana Coop Chairperson Dismissed

Mbarara – Members of Banyankole Kweterana Cooperative Union have dismissed their chairperson, Geoffrey Baingana, over abuse of his position and allegations of stifling the growth of the cooperative. Baingana was […]

Global cooperative movement meets in Kigali to discuss development

Participants from 95 countries from around the world have gathered in Kigali for the international cooperative conference that is discussing how to advance socio-economic development through the cooperative movement. Over […]

Cooperators Urge Museveni to Assent to the Landlord and Tenant Bill or Risk Losing 2021 Elections.

Kampala, Uganda: Traders under the Kampala Arcaders and Traders Association (KATA) have challenged President Museveni to sign the Landlord and Tenant Bill into law, or risk losing the next general […]

Lamwo Farmers Threaten to Quit Cooperative over Insufficient Market

Nearly 200 farmers in Lamwo district are threatening to quit their cooperative society – Agoro Cooperative Society in Agoro Sub County for failure to secure for them market for their […]

Kaitana Accused of Abuse of Office, Minister Orders his Immediate Suspension

Lwengo. The State Minister for Microfinance Haruna Kyeyune has ordered for the immediate suspension of Vincent Kaitana, the board chairperson of Kyazanga Kwegatta Savings and Credit Society Limited, over allegation […]

African Tax Bodies Struggling to Tax the Digital Economy

Nairobi, Kenya: Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Doris Akol has appealed to tax bodies across the region to cooperate in devising ways of ensuring that virtual foreign firms pay their […]