Lost revenue, environmental damage and exploitation of vulnerable communities makes this a high-cost industry for Uganda.
Criminal entrepreneurs are tapping into Uganda's vast reserves of sand, exploiting a sector which is largely unregulated by government. Posing as sand mining investors, they have formed local cartel networks with support from 'influential people' with government connections. They run and sell shipments of illegally mined sand using an established regional and global black market.
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