Tag Archives: Ministry of Water and Environment

By Cinderella Atenyo As the impacts of climate change intensify across Uganda’s Karamoja region — marked by prolonged droughts, erratic rainfall, severe land degradation, and increasing desertification — a powerful community-led response is taking root. On Thursday, 200 seedlings of Leucaena leucocephala (locally known as Lusina), a hardy, multipurpose tree, …

As part of efforts to avoid vandalism of dams, which were constructed by the government to provide water for livestock and crop production in Karamoja Sub-region, leaders have proposed to effect a fee on every cow. Kobebe Dam in Lotisan Sub-County in Moroto District (Photo by Timothy Eodu) Some of …

By Edward Akaki – Moroto, Karamoja On a humanitarian ground, everyone deserves a right to life, health and clean water and sanitation, afact that thousands in Karamoja see as a myth due to changing climatic conditions. The suffering and pain in Uganda’s north-eastern pastoralist region, is visible in massive crop …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MOUNT KEI: FRIDAY, Jun 24, 2022 This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. A rough, dusty road from Yumbe town in West Nile sub-region of Uganda passes through Mount Kei national forest reserve (formally known as Mount …