When I arrived at Lake Katwe Salt Works shores, the air had a rotten egg odour. The offensive smell is the hydrogen sulphide gas (also known as H2S) that occurs naturally in the lake. The numerous ...
Salt mining on Lake Katwe in Kasese District has been put on halt for the last three months due to flooding, rendering hundreds of miners jobless. The floods destroyed salt pans, a major source of ...
Ramanzani Ssakwa, 28, is a young salt miner at Lake Katwe, located in Katwe-Kabatoro town council, Kasese district. According to him, salt mining is the only source of income for his family, not ...
KATWE, Uganda — Julius Mutwalhughuma’s job is eating him alive. Three times a week for the past 20 years, Mutwalhughuma has waded into Uganda’s Lake Katwe in search of rock salt, which he sells to ...
Kampala — A total of 3,000 labourers at Katwe salt lake in Kasese district are jobless after floods ravaged the lake.Salt prices have also gone up from sh30,000 a bag to sh100,000 during the dry ...
Climate change is threatening Lake Katwe and the lives of over 8,000 residents who engage in salt extraction for a living. The lake has flooded forcing people to seek alternative jobs. It was a bright ...
FLOODS have ravaged Katwe salt lake in Kasese district, endangering the livelihoods of thousands of people and livestock that depend on the mineral. FLOODS have ravaged Katwe salt lake in Kasese ...
KATWE, Uganda — Julius Mutwalhughuma’s job is eating him alive. Three times a week for the past 20 years, Mutwalhughuma has waded into Uganda’s Lake Katwe in search of rock salt, which he sells to ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 1. Tennant Creek, located in a region rich in copper and uranium ore, can be found in the Northern Territory of what country? 2. Agra, the former capital of ...
Didas Yuryahewa, bent double and waist-deep in water, holds his breath as he struggles to gouge out another shovel of stinking black mud. The air is thick with the bad-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide ...
A lake in Uganda offers local residents a chance for good money, at considerable cost to their healthPhotographs by Andrew McConnell / WPN At Lake Katwe in western Uganda, around 700 men, women and ...
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