Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of taxi operators in Kampala are in a state of confusion, on where to dump the trash they would have collected from passengers in their vehicles, under the new anti-littering penalty announced by NEMA. Under the National Environment Act 2019, NEMA is …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a public outcry on the changing face of Entebbe, to an image that is not befitting of a town that was up until recent years branded one of the cleanest towns in Uganda. Its location, as the host of Uganda’s sole international …
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Tripoli, Libya | AFP | Faraj al-Doukali hastened to unload the dozens of rubbish bags from his van onto a sidewalk dump in Siyahiya, a residential district west of the Libyan capital. “Each weekend I collect the rubbish from my four brothers at the farm where we live and I look …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | At least 46 people died and dozens more were hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump outside Addis Ababa, a tragedy squatters living there blamed on a biogas plant being built nearby. Saturday’s landslide flattened dozens of homes of people living …
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