Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Families hosting landslide victims in Bududa district have started pushing them out of their homes. The Landslides hit Bushika Sub-county in Bududa District on December 3, 2019, displacing over 200 families across three villages of Namasa, Shikhururwe and Naposhi. More than 40 lives were lost. …
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Tripoli, Libya | AFP | Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children’s belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital’s outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between apartments as soaring rents in the crowded city exhausted her savings, eventually leaving …
Read More »In Mali, dreams and sadness for the Sahel express
Bamako, Mali | AFP | The sign above the station entrance declares that this is the Dakar-Niger Railway: the start of a trek from the arid Sahel to the tropical Atlantic, 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) away. But for those hoping to buy a ticket for a legendary journey, disappointment awaits. Not …
Read More »Heavy rains destroy houses in Kasese
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT At least seven families in Kasese have been left homeless after the houses in which they were staying in were destroyed by heavy rains. The Monday heavy downpour left five houses in Kidodo cell of Kasese municipality destroyed. Another house was demolished in Saluti Cell while …
Read More »Bulambuli family hosts 30 landslide victims
Bulambuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A family in Bulambuli district has offered to host 37 victims of the recent landslides. Fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains triggered landslides in Bulambuli district on August 27th, 2019 displacing dozens of families whose house were destroyed. The landslides buried homes in Busia, Bugatisa …
Read More »Evicted families live in misery two months after relief aid delivery by OPM
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 families that were forcefully evicted from a contested piece of land in Kyabisagazi I and II villages in Kigrobya Sub-county Hoima district are still in misery despite receiving food relief from the Office of the Prime Minister-OPM. The families were forced from …
Read More »Families search for loved ones at Mutima beach
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More people have shown up at Mutima Beach along the shores of Lake Victoria, to search for their relatives who were reported missing after a boat accident that killed more than 30 people over the weekend. The boat plunged into the lake on its …
Read More »Families voice anger over deadly South Korea hospital fire
Miryang, South Korea | AFP | Distraught relatives of those killed in a deadly South Korean hospital fire voiced anger Saturday at what they perceived as another man-made disaster in Asia’s fourth largest economy, just as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics. The huge blaze that erupted at the …
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