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Laura Owings

Laura Owings is a communicator with a background in science and media.

Workers on an under-construction barge at the Mahathi Infra Uganda Ltd. oil logistics complex on the shore of Lake Victoria in Entebbe, outside Kampala, Uganda, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Mahathi Infra Ugandas $270-million lakeside operation, a strategic addition to the East African nations oil infrastructure, is set to start operations in January. Photographer: Esther Ruth Mbabazi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
AIR POLLUTION

Africa’s polluters dodge the bullet

From pharmaceutical waste and radioactive pollutants in Lake Victoria in East Africa, to acid mine drainage in South Africa, water pollution is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Laura Owings
  • Dann Okoth
11 min read