NAIROBI, July 6, 2026 — Kericho County in Kenya is redefining the role of cooperative societies, transforming them from traditional marketing organisations into drivers of rural industrialisation, value addition and enterprise development as part of efforts to accelerate the implementation of the Government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda [BETA]. From coffee processing and dairy production to …
KAMPALA, July 6, 2026 – Uganda earned US$ 2.3 billion [about Shs 8.3 trillion] from coffee exports over the 12 months to May 2026, despite a significant decline in export volumes and earnings during the month of May, according to the latest coffee export report. Released by the Agriculture ministry, the report shows that Uganda …
HOIMA, July 6, 2026 — Paddy Kisembo, the newly elected Kikuube LCV Chairman, has pledged to strengthen cooperative societies in the district and mobilise local farmers to engage in commercial agriculture, which is key in ending household poverty. Kisembo was elected in the Kikuube by-election on June 18, following the death of the former district …
KAMPALA, July 6, 2026 — More than 5,000 students from the seventh cohort have completed six months of free vocational training under the Presidential Initiative on Skilling the Girl and Boy Child [PISGBC]. On Wednesday, the successful trainees showcased a wide range of products and services during the programme’s final exhibition at the Makerere University …
MASINDI, July 6, 2026 — Kinyara Sugar Ltd will pay Shs 5.5 billion in cash top-ups to contracted farmers during the 2026/27 financial year for sugarcane supplied to the company during the last financial year. A cash top-up is an additional payment made to contracted farmers at the end of a financial year, over and …
KINSHASA, July 6, 2026 — The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC], Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, on Friday welcomed the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, to the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale in Kinshasa for a high-level meeting aimed at accelerating the Ebola response in the DRC and mobilising African support …
