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It’s a sunny afternoon, and Kampala’s downtown in the city’s central business area is busy as usual. At the heart of downtown is the country’s largest garages complex (Kiseka market), a taxi park, a bus park, shopping malls, an agro-input market, as well as the famous Owino market, a one-stop place for all food and clothing items.
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Since 2016, Uganda has endured an almost back-to-back drought that has left farmers and pastoralists alike helpless as their crops and animals withered and died due to lack of water and pasture.
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According to a recent household survey by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, only 57% of Ugandans have access to any form of electricity. Of these, 19% and 38% were connected to the grid and off-grid power, respectively.
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Ben Mugambi, 26, first decided to invest in cryptocurrencies to beat the lockdown tedium at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. His first escapades in the industry went well and he was certain he would be trading in cryptos for a long time. And for a while, it was his sole source of income.
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Uganda Development Bank (UDB) has launched the UDB Climate Finance Facility (CFF), a strategic fund aimed at promoting climate-smart agriculture, climate resilient infrastructure, and low carbon industries.
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The Vihiga county government has commissioned a project that will process cheap fertiliser from human waste to cushion farmers against high prices of artificial fertiliser and boost agriculture.
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The Embassy of France in Uganda, in partnership with InfoNile, is launching a call for proposals for journalists who wish to gain skills in science-based environmental reporting and data journalism and publish journalistic pieces on environmental issues in the Ugandan context.
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Ahead of COP27, academics from 50 institutions have called for a shift in how politicians, funders and researchers think about the clean energy transition in the African continent, as a new study highlights radically different energy needs across countries.
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The Minister of Education, also First Lady Janet Museveni, has launched a countrywide campaign to fight climate change and stop grabbing of school land. The campaign, an initiative of the government being implemented in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was launched at Teryet High Altitude Centre in Teryet cell, Kwoti ward, Kapchorwa Municipality, on Tuesday.
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MultiChoice today announced its media broadcast partnership with The Earthshot Prize to help accelerate and spotlight the ingenuity and ambition of innovators, activists and scientists across Africa who are working to address the climate crisis on the African continent and around the world.
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NEW YORK, 15 September 2022 – 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been appointed as the newest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, affirming her collaboration with the organisation and recognising her outstanding global advocacy for climate justice for current and future generations.
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Chasing birds away each morning when they came to eat the grains on the ears of the ripe sorghum has been a typical role for any young boy in Kabale, a district in Western Uganda. Such is one memory of the Rev. Prof. Manuel Muranga, a Kabale-born lecturer at the Institute of Language Studies, Kabale University.