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In many parts of Uganda and Africa at large, rainwater forms a big component of water used for domestic use. Religiously, people expect rainwater to be safe to drink and thus supply several of their drinking water sources.
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KAMPALA: Media non-profit organisations, Last Drop Africa and InfoNile, have entered a strategic relationship to bolster climate change awareness in Africa using storytelling, data, and training.
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- By Alex Taremwa
Earlier this month, I traversed Karamoja Sub-region on a documentation assignment for a client. Some of the districts I visited were Napak – now making headlines for the famine that is ravaging its humble citizens- and Kaabong. I interviewed a Primary Seven pupil who goes to school with her one-year-old child and her mother. At 1pm, the trio feed on a cupful of boiled maize grain mixed with beans – roughages – she called them.
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I stay in a far-flung place outside town. It takes me a couple of hours to get to the central business district of Kampala. Almost every day, my route to town is always littered with a gridlock of traffic. In fact, my place has always been labeled a boiling pot of traffic. A bumper-to-bumper haven.
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Outside the Last Drop Africa office in Kiwatule, I waved this green boda-boda guy down. I was rushing for a meeting with our partners, InfoNile, at Design Hub in Bugolobi. A few things seemed unusual from the start. Mike seemed unusually cheap compared to his peers. When I asked, he said the current fuel price increase hadn’t affected him.
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If you have ever visited a real Mukiga’s home, chances are high that your taste buds have interacted with ‘Enturire’ – a porridge made from fermented sorghum. If you haven’t tasted this brew, however, your chances of enjoying this experience grow slim daily due to climate change.
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Kenneth Mugabi has many questions.
Now, before we answer any of his burning questions, who’s he? He’s not your usual musician. He’s not your usual celebrity. He’s not your usual song writer. He’s art meeting activism.
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We see you.
This is for the women who’re using different platforms to make their voices heard. For a long time, your voices have been muted. But this is changing, albeit slowly, thanks to you, women.
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Maybe it's under your bed gathering dust and eavesdropping on your personal business. Perhaps it's perched absentmindedly in your compound like a newfound landscaping masterpiece. Maybe it's clogging a sewer pipe in your neighbourhood.
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Unlike yesteryears, Uganda has witnessed an irregular shortfall of grasshopper supply in peak seasons. In their millions, the delicacy insects, locally christened ‘ensenene’, religiously descended upon Uganda around June and November.
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Patricia Munwela lives on the frontlines of the climate crisis. The mother of five struggles to make ends meet on their small family farm located in a remote village in the Kazungula District of southern Zambia.
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They dismissed us as poor farmers crying for attention, and so they went about their routines in their roofed 4×4 monster cars and air-conditioned offices.