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Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands. Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands.
Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands.
Five counties roll out agroecology policies to boost climate resilience Five counties roll out agroecology policies to boost climate resilience
Five counties roll out agroecology policies to boost climate resilience
Who buys Rwanda’s smuggled coltan? The global journey of conflict coltan from DRC to the world’s electronics Who buys Rwanda’s smuggled coltan? The global journey of conflict coltan from DRC to the world’s electronics
Who buys Rwanda’s smuggled coltan? The global journey of conflict coltan from DRC to the world's electronics
Breaking: El Niño looms over East Africa and Asia, bringing the specter of floods and disease outbreaks. Breaking: El Niño looms over East Africa and Asia, bringing the specter of floods and disease outbreaks.
Breaking: El Niño looms over East Africa and Asia, bringing the specter of floods and disease outbreaks.
MPs Tasked to Enhance Land Governance Oversight MPs Tasked to Enhance Land Governance Oversight
MPs Tasked to Enhance Land Governance Oversight
EU: IPI welcomes action against 14 states over Anti-SLAPP Directive delays EU: IPI welcomes action against 14 states over Anti-SLAPP Directive delays
EU: IPI welcomes action against 14 states over Anti-SLAPP Directive delays
Global hunger falls, but millions in Africa still go without food, says UN Global hunger falls, but millions in Africa still go without food, says UN
Global hunger falls, but millions in Africa still go without food, says UN
Wars are disrupting food systems, and ending world hunger requires urgent global action, experts say. Wars are disrupting food systems, and ending world hunger requires urgent global action, experts say.
Wars are disrupting food systems, and ending world hunger requires urgent global action, experts say.
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Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands.

By the Witness Radio team. Uganda is set to launch commercial oil production in late September, but researchers caution that...
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