(Posted 22nd June 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Gerald Tenywa, New Vision (Uganda), June 19, 2026 |
| A quiet sky hangs over Kyabakara sub-county, Rubirizi district – clouds drifting in slow passage, sunlight spilling softly across the land as though nothing beneath it is unsettled. Still, another truth persists: gold mining leaves a harsh footprint on the environment. Sixty-year-old Nicholas Nuwe of Kyabakara village in Rubirizi district stoops over the earth, sifting for traces of gold buried in its hidden seams – a gruelling pursuit that is both livelihood and gamble, carried out in the fragile space between survival and risk. |
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