Flooding

22 January 2026, 10:12 am

Poor waste disposal worsens flooding crisis in Mbale City

By Shadrach Bethel Afayo Once hailed as one of Uganda’s cleanest towns, Mbale City is now grappling with a worsening flooding crisis that residents, environmental experts and city planners increasingly attribute to years of poor waste disposal, weak enforcement of…

23 October 2025, 8:59 pm

Namamba village drowns in fear as floods become the new normal

By Gerald Welikhe When the rains arrived in Namamba village this year, they came not as a blessing, but as a warning. Within hours, what was once farmland and homesteads turned into a vast swamp. The people of this Mugiti…