Kampala — At dawn in Bukoto, shopkeeper Sarah Nakato wipes a thin brown film off her shelves before opening for the day. By midday, it will be back. “You clean in the morning, and by evening everything is dusty again,” she says, coughing slightly. “This dust is killing us slowly.” For many residents, this is…
Rehabilitation works have officially begun at the Kiteezi Landfill, where heavy machinery roared to life on Thursday to clear waste and install the first gas-ventilation and leachate-collection systems. The activity marks the start of a US$1 million project funded by the Government of Japan to stabilise and restore Uganda’s largest and most troubled waste-disposal site….