By NIKUZE NKUSI Diane The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance has today launched the seventh African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting (ACCER) Awards whose theme is to drive and shape the African narratives that ultimately influence the 27 th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set to be held in Egypt in November 2022. First launched in 2013, the ACCER Awards has continued to gain interests among a growing number of participating journalists but also organisations that have continued to sign up for partnering…
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Historically meaningfull of nyabarongo River in the region
By NIKUZE NKUSI Diane The fact that Nyabarongo is the real source of the Nile is now undisputable, after the overdue research that was carried out in 2006 and its subsequent findings. But even without the research, many Ugandans who live on the shores of Lake Victoria and the river’s biggest beneficiaries, had reckoned with this truth in 1994 when they started seeing headless and mutilated bodies that were floating deep inside Uganda during the horrendous genocide. The same bodies went as far as the port of Kisumu, a fact…
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