FEATURE-'They want to silence us': Uganda cracks down on anti-oil protests
* 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...
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