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Ugandan campaigners vow to keep on fighting for Bugoma Forest

Since August 2020, when mechanical graders roared to life as part of a controversial sugarcane development project, residents and civil society groups under the Save Bugoma Forest campaign have been waging an uphill legal battle.

A short walk from a parked bulldozer, police officers and private guards stationed in the proximity of the Nsozi village have been preventing access to parts of the forest.