East Africa’s shrinking mountain glaciers on three peaks in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will soon be no more. The 2025 State of the Climate in Africa report (page 13) estimates that the ice areas on Mt Kenya, the continent’s second-highest peak, have shrunk 96% in the past 115 years. The …
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Time is running out for the once-sprawling ice fields in the Rwenzori Mountains Kampala, Uganda | John Wendle | Enock Bwambale stopped at the lip of the dying glacier, its blunted nose arcing steeply down to scoured rocks, then shouted up to his fellow guide Uziah Kule that the ice was too …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rwenzori Fraternity Association-RWEFRA has launched a campaign dubbed “Greening the Rwenzori “to save the snow cap on Rwenzori Mountains. The initiative targets to plant over five million trees on the slopes of Mountain Rwenzori. David Bwambale Kongole, the RWEFRA-chairperson says the campaign is expected …
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