Tag: Uganda
East Africa Invests in Strategies to Manage E-Waste
As many countries in Africa embrace the latest technology—smartphones, computers, and other electronic gadgets—few have developed national strategies for managing the resulting e-waste. E-waste may…
Turning waste into energy: How banana skins and manure are being re-used to help power homes
Blessed with a wide variety of landscapes, the African country of Uganda produces everything from bananas and coffee to tea and cocoa. Indeed, its land…
Floods on record-high Lake Victoria expose need for water cooperation
About 400 families from Budalangi, in Busia County, have been living at the school since April, when the Nzoia River that flows from Kenya’s western…
Ugandans melt plastic waste into coronavirus face shields
When the Ugandan government ordered all non-essential workplaces shut to contain the coronavirus pandemic in late March, Peter Okwoko and his colleague Paige Balcom kept…
Heavy rains may mar quality of Ugandan coffee crop: official
The quality of Uganda’s coffee crop may decline in the coming months as heavy rains across the east African nation have reduced the amount of…
Lake Victoria’s surging water levels threaten hydro dams: Uganda
Lake Victoria’s water levels have surged to their highest level in more than half a century after about eight months of relentless downpours, posing a…
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