Climate change: Uganda asked to build resilience

He looked on helplessly, tears rolling down his cheeks as he kept biting his lower lip. Minutes earlier, he was agitated, attempting to plunge into the ferociously high-running water that carried and swallowed his motorcycle (boda boda). He sorely watched on as the wild waters carried his source of livelihood down afar. Friends, shouting with pleas to let it go, pushed the envelope to hold him back. 

The news on a local radio that morning had reported that the floods on River Nyamwamba had claimed the life of a resident and warned other community members against attempts to cross it….