A lawsuit filed in the Ugandan district of Mbale in 2020, shortly after weather experts warned that eastern Uganda would receive some of the heaviest rains in years is indicative of a broader, if still uneven, movement across Africa in recent years: Communities and activists are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge governments and […]
Diana Taremwa-Karakire
Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance environmental journalist based in Uganda. Her work has been published by
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Africa’s Longest Crude Oil Export Pipeline Isn’t Just Taking Indigenous Land, It Is Disturbing the Dead
Indigenous communities say burial sites are being disturbed by the EACOP project in Uganda and Tanzania, and compensation is not adequate to move graves.
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World’s Largest Soil-Carbon Project Faces Backlash From Pastoralist Communities
A Kenyan court ruled that the project did not properly consult communities and ordered credit verification organization Verra to investigate.
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Uganda’s Crude Oil Pipeline Faces Fresh Hurdles from Campaigners
After clearing its many financing hurdles, now EACOP is facing various legal claims that could slow its progress.
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Ugandan Communities Say Total’s Oil Project Is More of a Land Grab than a Development Opportunity
Fred Balikenda and his family were forcefully evicted from their home in Kirama village, Buliisa district on May 13, 2024 to make way for the Tilenga project. Photo by Diana Taremwa-Karakire. When Jealousy Mugisa Mulimba, a 52-year-old father of nine in Uganda’s oil-rich Buliisa district, was informed he would need to move his family from […]
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TotalEnergies Promises “Net Gain Biodiversity” as it Drills in Uganda’s Largest National Park
Total claims it can make up for the biodiversity impacts of drilling in Uganda’s largest national park by preserving biodiversity elsewhere, but local advocates aren’t buying it.
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False Solutions and Climate Delay
This series is supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, with several pieces co-published with media partners, including The Guardian, Vox, and Rolling Stone. Reporting on climate disinformation has increased exponentially over the past decade. In 2015, reporters at Inside Climate News, The Los Angeles Times, and Columbia Journalism School published the stories collectively referred […]