Uganda: Plant Bamboo to Control Mudslides

6 September 2011
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RAIN is supposed to be a blessing from the gods. So when people start dreading the next downpour, you know something has gone drastically awry. People in different parts of the country are still trying to come to terms with the losses and suffering the current rains have brought into their lives.

Lives and property have been lost in the lightning strikes, mud slides, floods and wind storms that characterise the current rains. Instead of making the most of the rains, farmers in many parts of the country are busy recovering bodies of colleagues buried by mud slides or grieving over the loss of crops and livestock washed away by floods.

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