Kampala, Uganda | Ronald Musoke | Ugandan youth have been among the strongest voices calling for urgent global action to address climate change. Many whom The Independent has talked to say when the 26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) opens in Glasgow, Scotland, on Oct.31, they will be watching …
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The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline is a project with multiple dire social, economic and environmental impacts COMMENT | VANESSA NAKATE AND LANDRY NINTERETSE | Dear Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, building the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline in the midst of a climate …
Read More »Ugandan activist accuses media of racism after she is cropped out of picture with white activists.
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Ugandan young female climate activist has accused international media agency Associated Press (AP) of racism after she was cropped out a photo of activists taken at Davos, Switzerland. The photo, where Vanessa Nakate stood with other prominent climate activists Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Loukina …
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