Goats and Soda

editor's note

Dear readers,

Uganda is building an oil pipeline. The promise: economic benefit. The reality: families have been dislocated from their traditional homes and say that the consequences have been heartbreaking.

Correspondent Willem Marx visited some of these folks  -- an 88-year-old who can no longer visit the graves of his loved ones, a mother who says her husband ran off with the payout given for moving from their home. "I now handle everything single handedly, I have no support," she says. "The children need food. The children need school fees. The children had to drop out of school."

Read the story here.

Marc Silver
Editor, Goats and Soda

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