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Daily Monitor Wednesday February 03 2021 Armed UPDF soldiers patrol parts of Uganda in January 2021. People around mining centres accuse of sexual assaults. PHOTO/COURTESY. Summary Most of the rape cases have been reported to the army officials in charge of the site but little has been done for the sake of justice.  Advertisement Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers deployed at mining sites in Karamoja Sub-region have been accused of sexually harassing female miners. It is alleged t...

Daily Monitor Tuesday December 15 2020 Advertisement In a remote village of Nakabaat in Rupa Sub-county, Moroto District, lives about 1,500 households who eke a living from gold mining. The miners here risk their lives to dig ore out of the earth, from which they extract gold. At Nakabaat mines, about 300kgs of ore must be excavated to extract one gram of gold. Traders buy a gram between Shs110,000 and Shs210,000. This is done under hazardous conditions worsened by lack of access to clean water...