Pressure on environment sparks call for clean energy, climate-smart livelihoods.
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2026-04-03
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Daily Monitor
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Uganda is Africa's largest refugee and asylum seeker centre and the 6th largest in the world, which desperately puts pressure on the environment, requiring urgent and coordinated intervention. As refugees continue to settle alongside host communities, the rising demand for firewood, land and basic resources is accelerating deforestation, land degradation and pollution threatening already fragile ecosystems.
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Walugembe, D. (2026). Pressure on environment sparks call for clean energy, climate-smart livelihoods. Daily Monitor.