BY JOSEPHINE OSANDRU MAWUA, MADI OKOLLO, UGANDA: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2026 In Rhino Camp, a remarkable story of resilience and determination unfolds. Refugee women, who once fled their homes due to conflict, are now leading the charge against climate change through innovative agriculuture. With support of dedicated organisations and the …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025 From West Nile to Karamoja, the panorama of large scale deforestation due to charcoal burning and the commercial transportation of charcoal to Kampala is playing out unabated. This phenomenon is unfolding under the watch of the law enforcers against the backdrop of …
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By Josephine Osandru Mawua Madi Okollo, Uganda September 18, 2025 RHINO CAMP REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Madi Okollo District. Under the relentless sun that pushes daytime temperatures past 40°C, the land in Rhino Camp settlement in Northern Uganda is cracked and parched. For the tens of thousands of refugees who fled conflict …
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By Ezadri Michael Onyafia TEREGO: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 In the West Nile district of Terego where Tobacco growing as the main cash crop has dominated since the colonial times, environmental challenges abound. Deforestation arising from massive use of wood fuel for tobacco curing and opening of virgin lands for …
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BY WILFRED LAMONY JWEE NWOYA: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Juliet Layet, 28, is an enterprising farmer in Otingo Cung in Mulago cell Geyi ward in Koch Goma Town Council, Nwoya district. Layet, a member of Obol Farmers’ Group that has 57 members explains that she had used traditional hand hoes …
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By Josephine Osandru Mawua, TEREGO/MADI-OKOLLO: MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025 In the wake of unbearable heat waves due to rising temperatures sweeping through East Africa and coupled with scarcity of water, living in a refugee settlement has been a mind-blowing experience in the Rhino Camp Refugee settlement in Terego and Madi …
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By Janeth Fridah KOBOKO: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 In an effort to save the environment from degradation, women in lobule Sub County in Koboko district have embarked on tree planting. Shifa Salama, a member of the host community in Lobule, said that they formed an association of over 84 women …
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By Jacklyne Mbonabyenja Kiryandongo: Tuesday February 25, 2025 In the vicinity of homesteads in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, clean well set vegetable gardens blossom. Majority of the backyard farms are operated by women who also practice mixed farming, intercropping, mulching, growing high breed crops, using organic fertilizers and carrying out irrigation …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU PAKWACH: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 In Panyimur, a town council bordering Lake Albert and River Nile in the West Nile district of Pakwach, fluctuations in the water level and reduction in the population of mukene (silverfish) are causing anxiety. This, coupled with limited adaptive capacity to cope …
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One of the freshly weeded gardens in Solome Abalo’s farm …
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