COP28: Environmentalists want Uganda’s governance issues highlighted
Environmentalists under the National Association of Professional Environmentalists-NAPE want the Ugandan delegation to highlight issues that relate to governance during the 2023 United Nations...
130 PEOPLE KILLED BY FLOODS IN ETHIOPIA, KENYA AND SOMALIA
CLIMATE CHANGE IN AFRICA. At least 130 people have died and services disrupted in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains this week,...
CAN AFRICAN FARMERS EFFECTIVELY MANAGE PLASTIC WASTE?
African farmers have been challenged to embrace different efforts through climate action to effectively manage plastic waste, as the continent and the world at...
NEMA & RWAMPARA DISTRICT LG START 2-WEEK WETLAND RESTORATION PROGRAMME
The National Environment Management Authority-NEMA southwestern Uganda office together with Rwampara district Local Government have started a 2-week wetland restoration programme.
This programme or operation...
FIGHTING PLASTIC POLLUTION: Women environmental defenders launch grassroots campaign
BY Aaron Ainomugisha, RISE NEWS UGANDA NETWORK, western Uganda. Women Environmental Defenders in western Uganda have launched a grassroots campaign to fight the escalating...
HOW CORRUPTION & POLICY GAPS ARE HINDERING THE RESTORATION OF RIVER RWIZI
BY AARON AINOMUGISHA. Environmentalists and other concerned stakeholders in Mbarara city western Uganda have attributed the terrible pollution choking River Rwizi to corruption, connivance...