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Rwanda’s Cooperative Bank For 2020

The long awaited Cooperative Bank which is expected to alleviate the burden of interest rate among the small and medium enterprises and boost investment is officially scheduled for the next […]

2019/20 budget: What is in it for farmers, Traders and Cooperatives?

KAMPALA, Uganda: The Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development Hon. Matia Kasaijja yesterday presented the Government of Uganda’s Income and Expenditure estimates for the financial year the 2019/20, with […]

Government releases UGX 1.3b for teachers SACCO

KAMPALA, Uganda: As the 2019/2020 budget gets read amidst the meagre income of the teachers, the government put a smile on the faces of the teachers with another release of […]

OWC targets cooperatives in new shs600b fund for presidential Agri-Led Initiative

KAMPALA, Uganda: The Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) has started countrywide mobilization of farmers grouped under cooperatives to benefit from the Presidential directive on Agro Industrialization for Local Development, thecooperator has […]

Africa can feed not only itself, but the world

Much of the continent’s food perishes before it gets to the market, because its farmers are starved of knowledge and of resources. That can change, says Usman Ali Lawan In […]

Kisumu boda-boda riders in standoff with county over Ksh20 daily levy

Kisumu boda-boda riders are at loggerhead with the county government over taxation. Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o’s administration wants them to pay Ksh20 daily. Finance executive Nerry Achar made the announcement last […]

Rwanda’s “Blue” Village is cooperating to address poverty, with inspiring results.

KAYONZA, Rwanda: Striking sky blue houses hit your eyes as you descend in Nkondo 11, Nkondo cell, Rwinkwavu sector, a few kilometers from the Akagera National Park main entrance gate. […]

Cooperatives to hit 20,000 by December – Kitandwe.

KAMPALA, Uganda: Uganda will have 20,000 registered cooperatives by the end of the year, the Cooperator has established. According to figures from the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives, as […]

Co-op Holdings Cooperative Society receives Ksh 3.78b dividend from Co-op Bank

Co-operative Bank’s shareholders will recoup their investment in full this year from dividend payouts with Co-op Holdings Co-operative Society getting the largest payout of Ksh 3.78 billion. This year’s dividend […]

Co-op Holdings Cooperative Society receives Ksh 3.78b dividend from Co-op Bank

Co-operative Bank’s shareholders will recoup their investment in full this year from dividend payouts with Co-op Holdings Co-operative Society getting the largest payout of Ksh 3.78 billion. This year’s dividend […]