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Local people and government officials in Uganda are concerned about the environmental effects of tree-cutting for charcoal production. Now, people are attacking charcoal producers.

Felling of trees creates worries about threat of climate change as producers face arrests

The charcoal makers in the forests of northern Uganda fled into the bush, temporarily abandoning their precious handiwork: multiple heaps of timber yet to be processed. The workers were desperate to avoid capture by local officials after a new law banned the commercial production of charcoal. They risked arrest and beatings if they were caught.…

The burning of charcoal, an age-old practice in many African societies, is now restricted business across northern Uganda amid a wave of resentment by locals.

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The burning of charcoal, an age-old practice in many African societies, is now restricted...

"These people are destroying this environment," says Komakech. "They are not the Indigenous of this place, they are people who are actually imported and put in this community. And they do this thing without the mercy of leaving any vegetation, as you can see.”