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Chairpersons of Emyooga Saccos in Ankole struggle to recover funds

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chairpersons of Emyooga Savings and Credit Cooperatives in the Ankole region are struggling to recover Emyooga funds. Emyooga was launched in 2019 aiming at creating jobs and improving household incomes of Ugandans in various categories including the boda boda riders, journalists, taxi drivers, restaurant owners, …

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Parents ask gov’t to use Community Stations for radio lessons

  Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents in the greater Ankole region have asked the government to consider utilizing radio stations from the respective districts to ensure continuity of learning as schools remain closed. The Ministry of Education selected only 15, out of the more than 300 radio Stations …

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Drug resistant ticks puzzle farmers in Ankole

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in the Ankole are concerned about drug-resistant ticks which have affected their livestock. The blacklegged “Deer” Tick and Brown Dog Ticks remain a huge challenge for farmers in Kiruhura, Isingiro and Mbarara districts. The ticks cause diseases like East Coast fever and Boophilus decoloratus …

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Ankole farmers want government to fix produce prices

Farmers want the government to formulate policies favouring and determining the sale of their produce Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in the Ankole region are demanding that the government be the one to determine and declare standard market prices to save them from being cheated by traders and middlemen. …

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Animal quarantine imposed in Ankole to contain FMD

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three more districts in Ankole have announced animal quarantine to contain the spread of the Foot and Mouth disease-FMD. They are Mbarara, Ibanda and Kazo districts. These join Kiruhura district which announced partial quarantine in Sanga, Kanyaryeru, Nyabushozi and Kayanja sub-counties in January due to …

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NRM wins in four municipalities in Ankole

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM party has won in four municipalities in Ankole. It won in Sheema, Ibanda, Ntungamo and Ishaka-Bushenyi municipality. Ibanda district returning officer, Danson Kamusiime Ruhemba announced Apollo Twine Kibeherere of the NRM party who was the interim mayor and was elected mayor …

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