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Tuesday 18 August 2026

Kampala Bureau

ISSN 2960-4471

Vol. VI

Tuesday 18 August 2026Kampala Bureau · ISSN 2960-4471Vol. VI

Grace Nabwire

Community Impact Correspondent

Grace covers community impact audits, land rights and resettlement across Uganda's mining districts, and investigates oversight and enforcement gaps in the country's gold rush areas.

Articles by Grace Nabwire

01Community impact · Positive · 13 August 2026Wagagai Mining's Busia community programmeThe Alupe gold project has promised local water access and employment. The real question is how well those commitments can be documented year after year.
02Community impact · July 14, 2026Busia's cooperative licensing model, assessedWhere artisanal miners hold licences as cooperatives rather than being displaced by them, safety, traceability and revenue all improve.
03Investigation · Critical · September 12, 2025Buhweju gold rush and the oversight gapA fast-moving artisanal gold rush across Buhweju's highlands is outrunning district-level oversight and repeating the Kassanda failure pattern.
04Investigation · Critical · May 27, 2024Kassanda gold pits and the ASGM enforcement gapInvestigative reporting from Kassanda documents the failure modes Uganda's artisanal gold sector still has to eliminate.