KAMPALA, August 15, 2026 — Standard Chartered Bank Uganda, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Muyenga Tankhill, has launched the Standard Chartered–Rotary Skills for Change Cohort 2026, a six-month youth empowerment initiative implemented through Einstein Rising’s Skills for Change Programme in Muyenga, Kampala. The programme will equip 20 vulnerable young people, primarily young women …

MOYO, August 15, 2026 —Moyo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Limited, [Moyo SACCO]—the “Pride of the Madi Sub-region” as it is commonly acclaimed, began in 2002 as a Village Savings and Loan Association with Shs 12 million in share capital. It later transitioned into a SACCO in July 2003 and had until recently grown into …

KAMPALA, August 14, 2026 — There is renewed hope for stability in Uganda’s cooperative sector after it came to light that the Bank of Uganda [BoU] and the Uganda Cooperative Savings and Credit Union [UCSCU] had agreed to work together towards resolving the long-running stalemate over the regulation of large Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations …

KAMPALA, August 14, 2026 — Legislators debating a motion to appreciate President Yoweri Museveni for his clear and precise exposition of government policy in the State of the Nation Address [SONA] delivered to Parliament on June 4, 2026, have called for improved access to agricultural support for Ugandan farmers to enable them to improve their …

TAITA TAVETA, August 14, 2026 — Three farmer cooperatives in Taita Taveta County have received Ksh 29.9 million in grants to strengthen dairy and banana value chains, reduce post-harvest losses and help farmers secure better prices for their produce. The grants, disbursed under the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project [NAVCDP], will support processing, packaging, …

LIMA, August 14, 2026 — Colombia has been hit by a significant 7.4-magnitude earthquake that has severely affected the country’s coffee production and export infrastructure, particularly a road essential for transporting roughly 60 percent of the nation’s coffee exports. The earthquake’s epicentre was near major coffee-growing regions, which are strategically important to Colombia, the world’s …