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Illegal Timber Trade at Uganda-DRC Border Fuels Corruption, Illicit Flows,...
By Innocent Kiiza At Uganda’s Mpondwe-Lubiriha border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), timber trading is booming -but a significant portion of it bypasses the law. Smugglers, middlemen, and...
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Kilembe’s Silent Asbestos Legacy: Decades of Exposure, Questions Still Unanswered
BY RAM KIKAMA Decades after asbestos-containing materials were introduced around Kilembe’s copper mines, deteriorating structures still shelter families in Kasese, raising questions about exposure, environmental contamination and the health risks...
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The Wildlife Robbery: What Uganda Loses When an Elephant or...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA The elephant was worth more alive than dead, but that is not how everyone living around Uganda’s national protected areas sees it. For a farmer whose garden...
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From Town Drains to Elephant Guts: What Elephant Dung Reveals...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA The pile of elephant dung looked ordinary. Fresh, damp and packed with half-digested grass, it lay beside a dusty game track in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park,...
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From Shade Trees to Hope: How Agroforestry is Transforming Lives...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA Standing in his coffee garden in Ganyenda-Kinoni Parish, Kamwenge District, Isidoro Ndyabwe carefully examines rows of young trees stretching across his farm. A few years ago, the...
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How ECOTRUST Agroforestry and Carbon Credits Are Transforming Climate Resilience...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA At the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda, the sound of rushing water has become a warning. During heavy rains, rivers descend violently from the...
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DRC – Uganda: Unequal treatment at the Kasindi-Mpondwe border, an...
By Paul Zaidi Cross-border activities between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda at the Kasindi-Lubiriha (DRC) and Mpondwe (UGANDA) border posts continue to raise concerns related to unequal treatment...
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Persistent difficulties are undermining efforts to facilitate trade at the...
BY RAM KIKAMA Despite the introduction of regional trade policies, simplified protocols, and the establishment of a single border post at Mpondwe, small traders continue to face persistent challenges at...
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Measured in Sacks, Not Scales: The Silent Struggle of Lake...
BY INNOCENT KIIZA The road to Lake Katwe winds quietly through the vast savannah of Queen Elizabeth National Park. From a distance, the lake flashs under the morning sun, its...
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