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Author: John Okot

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John Okot is a freelance journalist based in Gulu, northern Uganda.

  • Climate activists at COP29 have criticised the presence of fossil fuel lobbyists from multinationals such as TotalEnergies, the main stakeholder in the controversial EACOP project. Credit: IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis.
    ClimateTop story
    By John Okot
    November 20, 2024
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    “One finger in clean energy, two legs in fossil fuels”: TotalEnergies accused of COP29 greenwashing offensive

    TotalEnergies’ charm offensive has ramped up, having been found guilty of making misleading claims about its commitment to sustainability this year. A week before the COP29 ...
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  • Climate activists at COP29 on the final day of week one call for climate finance and climate justice for Africa and the Global South. Credit: IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
    ClimateTop story
    By John Okot
    November 18, 2024
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    “The worst first week of a COP”: Frustrations rise as week two begins

    Negotiators and activists from Africa say there has been very little positive progress at COP29 as well as a worrying focus on false solutions. As the ...
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  • A trader transports charcoal through Mount Kei Central Forest Reserve. Credit: John Okot.
    ClimateSouth SudanTop storyUganda
    By John Okot
    October 22, 2024
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    “An ecological war is going on”: Uganda charcoal booms despite ban

    Our undercover investigation highlights how easily corruption and unclear borders continue to undermine the charcoal ban in Uganda. When Mustapha Gerima decided to drop in on ...
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  • Abdul Aziz Bwete (middle) with some fellow climate activists from Justice Movement Uganda who were jailed for protesting against the imprisonment of their fellow activists last year. Credit: John Okot.
    ClimatePoliticsTop storyUganda
    By John Okot
    March 27, 2024
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    “The path we’ve chosen”: Uganda’s young climate activists stay defiant

    Despite being targeted by the police and courts, youth activists say the dangers of EACOP going ahead remain greater than those of protesting. Eric Sskekindi, 25, ...
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  • Judith Bero-Irwoth set up her keyhole garden after she was displaced by the EACOP project. Credit: John Okot.
    ClimateEconomyTop storyUganda
    By John Okot
    February 20, 2024
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    “We’re surrounded by oil”: Activist gardening in a shadow of EACOP

    Ugandans displaced by the mega oil pipeline are turning to African keyhole gardening for both survival and a way to channel their climate activism.  Judith Bero-Irwoth ...
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  • Motorcycle tax operators, or boda boda drivers, also benefit from the charcoal trade by transporting it. Credit: John Okot.
    ClimateEconomyEditor's PicksUganda
    By John Okot
    October 3, 2023
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    “Why do they punish us?” Uganda charcoal ban ignites transition debate

    While welcomed in principle, the abrupt charcoal ban has left both traders and buyers unsure of where to turn. Earlier this year, Hamidu Ssenyondo, a charcoal ...
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  • A farmer wades through his garden after floods destroyed it in Kasenyi village, Albertine region, western Uganda. Credit: John Okot..
    ClimateSocietyTop storyUganda
    By John Okot
    June 23, 2023
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    “Danger is imminent”: Ugandans blame EACOP tree clearings for floods

    Floods submerged farms near TotalEnergies’ 700-acre industrial area. The oil major has compensated 88 people. Officials say thousands were affected. Floods first ripped through Sam Akuguzibwe’s ...
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  • Bob Barigye, an enviromental activist, in the capital, Kampala. Photo by John Okot.
    ClimateEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda
    By John Okot
    March 16, 2023
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    “Enemies of the state”: Uganda targets climate activists in quiet crackdown

    Activists say the government is using arrests and psychological torture to avoid signs of abuse that could lead to bad publicity for EACOP investors. In December ...
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  • Police at an opposition rally in Uganda in April 2022. Credit: Bobi Wine/Facebook.
    PoliticsSocietyTop storyUganda
    By John Okot
    May 10, 2022
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    Museveni’s plan to jail rivals for even longer and how it might backfire

    Uganda’s president wants to eradicate bail for capital offences, but even some in his own party aren’t sure it’s a good idea. For over eight months, ...
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  • Jose Chameleone (left) and Bobi Wine (right) performing together in 2018.
    PoliticsSocietyTop storyUganda
    By John Okot
    October 13, 2021
    1481
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    “Beggars and bailouts”: The new political rift in Uganda’s music scene

    Earlier this year, musicians were largely united against the government as several ran as opposition candidates. Not so much anymore. This July, a hotel in the ...
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