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Uganda: Sweeping Illegal Sand Mining Under the Rug
ISS, 10 August 2020
Lost revenue, environmental damage and exploitation of vulnerable communities makes this a high-cost industry for Uganda. Read more »
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Uganda: Sand Mining Resumes On L.victoria Shores
Monitor, 18 May 2020
Sand mining has resumed on the shores of Lake Victoria despite the recent presidential directive to the Minister of Water and Environment to clear all wetlands, riverbanks and… Read more »
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Uganda: Government to Evict Lakeshore Encroachers
Monitor, 6 May 2020
The Minister of Water and Environment, Mr Sam Cheptoris, has said his ministry will evict encroachers of lakeshores, riverbanks and wetlands as per the President's directive. Read more »
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Uganda: Locals Ask Government to Halt Sand Mining in Lwera
Monitor, 2 January 2020
Residents of Kamuwunga Village in Lukaya Town Council, Kalungu District, have said Lwera swamp is facing extinction due to sand mining. Read more »
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Uganda: Environment Agency Sues Sand Mining Firms
Monitor, 6 February 2019
An environmental body has sued four sand mining companies seeking to block them from further carrying out of the mining business in various wetlands in Lwera and Lake Victoria. Read more »
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Africa: Sand Mining 'Mafias' Destroying Environment, Livelihoods - UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 7 May 2019
Sand extraction has increased pollution and flooding, lowered groundwater levels, hurt marine life, and exacerbated the occurrence and severity of landslides and drought Read more »
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Uganda: Illegal Sand Mining Danger to Lake Victoria Basin
Monitor, 6 March 2018
The Lake Victoria basin ecosystem is experiencing unprecedented levels of environmental degradation. This is occasioned by deforestation, reclamation of wetlands for agriculture,… Read more »
Govt Sweeping Illegal Sand Mining Under the Rug in Uganda
Sand mining in the rural districts of Masaka, Wakiso, Kalungu, Gomba and Mpigi around Lake Victoria is informal and despite periodic condemnation by top state officials, including president Yoweri Museveni, government oversight is inadequate. This inaction has enabled the cartels to establish either irregularly licensed or unlicensed operations. Regulating the industry is also complex with gaps in Uganda's laws limiting the country's ability to regulate sand extraction, writes Mohamed Daghar for the Institute for Security Studies. Extraction in rivers and beaches has increased pollution and flooding, lowered groundwater levels, hurt marine life, and exacerbated the occurrence and severity of landslides and drought across the globe, according to the UN's Environment Programme.
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Extraction in rivers and beaches has increased pollution and flooding, lowered groundwater levels, hurt marine life, and exacerbated the occurrence and severity of landslides and ... Read more »
