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Once a vital drainage artery of Kampala, the Nakivubo Channel has become a tragic symbol of urban neglect. Buildings encroach, wetlands vanish, and rainstorms now trigger deadly floods. The city’s clogged lifeline floods again, reminding us that infrastructure failure and environmental collapse walk hand-in-hand.
Once a vital drainage artery of Kampala, the Nakivubo Channel has become a tragic symbol of urban neglect. Buildings encroach, wetlands vanish, and rainstorms now trigger deadly floods. The city’s clogged lifeline floods again, reminding us that infrastructure failure and environmental collapse walk hand-in-hand.

EDITORIAL: Banks Are Our Last Line of Defence – Will They Stop Financing Uganda’s Environmental Collapse?

When Uganda’s capital city floods, it is often framed as a natural disaster. The skies open up in fury, the drains overflow, and Kampala drowns under its own chaos. But the truth,
November 13, 2025
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A photo collage of city businessman Ham Kiggundu, and an artistic impression of a redeveloped Nakivubo channel. Mr. Kiggundu has come under immense pressure for redeveloping the drainage channel without the blessing of local authorities, even after a greenlight from President Museveni.

Storm over Nakivubo: Ham, KCCA, NEMA dragged to court over drainage channel encroachment

A group of Ugandan lawyers and civic activists have taken to the High Court to challenge what they describe as a dangerous, unconstitutional, and illegal encroachment on Kampala’s lifeline drainage system—the Nakivubo
September 24, 2025
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Maj. Gen Sabiiti Muzeeyi. General Manager - Luwero Industries Ltd. NEC, handing over the award to Barbara Dokoria (R) the Stanbic Bank Ag. Executive Director, Looking is Diana Ondoga the bank's head of Corporate Social Investments.

NEMA awards Stanbic Bank for environmental protection

Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited has been recognized by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) for its proactive efforts to promote environmental protection and preservation through adoption of innovative technologies and implementation of
July 12, 2024
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Left-right: NEMA Executive Director, Dr. Barirega Akankwasah; Bernard Oundo, the President, of Uganda Law Society and Phillip Karugaba, Executive, ENS Africa

NEMA car dustbin law is unconstitutional and should be dustbinned⏤senior lawyers insist 

With only a few hours left to the commencement of a National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) directive to the motoring public to have dustbins installed in their motor vehicles, senior lawyers insist
March 30, 2023
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Some of the trees, that Hoima Sugar says it had planted earlier in an effort to restore the forest. PHOTO/Courtesy

Hoima Sugar to restore deforested Kyangwali Land

Hoima Sugar has agreed to restore land at Kyangwali which it insists was damaged by encroachers and not the sugar company. This follow a letter from the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
September 28, 2022
Phillip Karugaba is the Head of ENSafrica Advocates, Uganda. He believes there is need for more laws and more institutions to fight the degradation of the wetlands.

The protection of wetlands in Uganda: too little too late

By Phillip Karugaba During the 2019 Wetlands Day Celebrations, President Yoweri Museveni, in a speech delivered by Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, cautioned Ugandans against degrading wetlands and forests and called for protection
September 8, 2020
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