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'We live in fear': Lwera wetland activists cry out
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2026-02-11
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Weekly Observer
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When eight envirnmental activists walked into the headquarters of Uganda's National Management Authority (NEMA) last October, they believed they were exercising a basic civic right. They carried a petition. They came peacefully. Their demand was simple: Stop what they called the state-backed degradation of Lwera Wetland.