People living illegally in Uganda’s protected zones around lakes face eviction
Thousands have been displaced from their homes along the shoreline by the worst flooding since records began more than a century ago
11 June 2020 - 11:40
Entebbe — For the last decade, Silus Musasizi has lived on a wetland on the shores of Lake Victoria. For most of that time, Uganda's government has been trying to chase him away.
Now, it is the water itself that has driven him from his small house on the edge of Entebbe, a Ugandan town that juts into Africa's largest lake...
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