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Climate change sinking Uganda's lake shorelines

Sam Cheptoris, the Minister of Water and Environment, says Lake Victoria is rising due to excessive rain and environmental destruction.

Kigungu Catholic Church in Entebbe, built over the spot where the fi rst Catholic missionaries in Uganda landed in 1879 is getting engulfed by the rising water levels on Lake Victoria’s shores. (File Photo)
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By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

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It is the second time in the last five years that the rising waters of Lake Victoria have displaced Moses Omondi, a fisherman at Entebbe

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