{"id":9969,"date":"2020-06-12T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","slug":"uganda-wants-people-to-leave-flooded-wetlands-and-not-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/12\/uganda-wants-people-to-leave-flooded-wetlands-and-not-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Wants People to Leave Flooded Wetlands &#8211; and Not Come Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the last decade, Silus Musasizi has lived on a wetland on the shores of Lake Victoria. For most of that time, Uganda\u2019s government has been trying to chase him away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it is the water itself that has driven him from his small house on the edge of Entebbe, a Ugandan town that juts into Africa\u2019s largest lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands have been displaced from their homes along the shoreline by the worst flooding since records began more than a century ago. Musasizi, who works as a truck driver, is renting a room on higher ground until the waters recede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHomes have been destroyed,\u201d said Musasizi, whose family came here originally seeking cheap land. \u201cMy friends are now on the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ugandan government has said people like Musasizi are partly to blame for the floods, and wants them to leave the wetlands for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It plans to start evicting people without compensation this month &#8211; in the middle of a coronavirus lockdown that has hit the poor hardest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-uganda-environment-housing-trfn-idUSKBN23I15P\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last decade, Silus Musasizi has lived on a wetland on the shores of Lake Victoria. For most of that time, Uganda\u2019s government has been trying to chase him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}