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Residents of the Albertine region blame the damage to farmlands on global warming, as well as the mass felling of trees to make way for the massive infrastructure
While welcomed in principle, the abrupt charcoal ban has left both traders and buyers unsure of where to turn
Floods submerged farms near TotalEnergies' 700-acre industrial area. The oil major has compensated 88 people. Officials say thousands were affected. Floods first ripped through Sam Akuguzibwe's three-acre garden in May last year. His family had farmed tha...
* Ugandan climate activists rally against planned pipeline * They accuse government of 'silencing' them with arrests * Authorities reject criticism and say 'the law is clear' By John Okot BULIISA, Uganda, Jan 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U gandan environmental campaigner Judith Bero-Irwoth has spent years warning of the risks of a planned crude oil pipeline and its impact on communities in the west of the country. Protests by activists like Bero-Irwoth have ramped up in the Albertine Graben region and the capital, Kampala, in recent years since France's TotalEnergi...
Northern Uganda's revered shea trees are under threat from climate change and illegal loggers who turn the wood into charcoal and sell the fuel for use in cooking