Environment
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Bobi Wine vows to restore Zoka Forest, expand youth skills training
ADJUMANI, December 8, 2025 — The National Unity Platform [NUP] presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, widely known as Bobi Wine, has pledged to prioritise the restoration of the Zoka Central Forest Reserve…
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Acholi farmers count losses as dry season arrives early
GULU CITY, December 8, 2025 — The early arrival of the dry season has left many farmers across the Acholi Subregion counting heavy losses, as acres of maize, groundnuts and beans, wither…
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EU endorses another one-year delay for EUDR implementation
BRUSSELS, December 4, 2025 — The European Union has voted to postpone implementing a key anti-deforestation law commonly known as the European Union Deforestation Regulation [ EUDR ] for the second year…
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COP30: AfDB strengthens investments in climate-peace-security nexus
MELES, November 30, 2025 — Climate change, of which Africa has been the principal victim, is aggravating severe and rising security threats across the continent — including terrorism, armed confrontations, and inter-community…
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Gov’t restores Kole Dam at Shs 720mln after weed infestation
KOLE, November 30, 2025 — The Government has rehabilitated Leye Dam in Ayer Subcounty, Kole district, following a deadly weed infestation that destroyed all the fish previously reared there. The dam, constructed…
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Climate finance: from transition to transformation
By Rumi Mahmood LONDON, November 27, 2025 — Physical climate risk has become one of the most consequential forces shaping global markets. What once appeared as an external environmental issue now registers…
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Joy as solar-powered borehole ends more than 40 years of water shortage in Nebbi villages
NEBBI, November 26, 2025 — Excitement has swept through seven villages in Abar West Parish, Ndhew Sub-county in Nebbi District following the commissioning of a solar-powered borehole, ending more than 40 years…
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Uganda launches bold climate-finance agenda as new strategies move ‘From Ambition to Action’
KAMPALA, November 26, 2025 — Uganda has unveiled a set of climate-finance strategies designed to turn years of policy ambition into concrete action, as the country commits to building a low-carbon and…
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Minister orders arrests over alleged encroachment on Hoima Sugar land
KIKUUBE, November 25, 2025 — The State Minister for Lands, Sam Mayanja, has instructed Kikuube Resident District Commissioner [RDC] Godwine Agria Kasigwa and Maj Gen Daniel Kakono, Commander of the Field Artillery…
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Uganda’s recoverable oil reserves rise to 1.65bln barrels
KAMPALA, November 24, 2025 — Uganda’s petroleum sector has reported an increase in the country’s estimated oil and gas reserves, according to Ernest Rubondo, Executive Director of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda…
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