ntoroko

Until this year, Robert Kazini had never given much thought to whether he was fishing in Congolese or Ugandan waters; it didn’t matter. Nor did it matter much to Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — until prospectors found oil here. Now, with both countries dreaming of billions of petrodollars that could flow from Lake Albert, an ugly and at times deadly dispute over their border is jeopardising the livelihoods of locals like Kazini.

At the Protestant church in Ntoroko, in Uganda’s western Bundibugyo district, Hallelulia, resplendent in his Sunday best, strikes up his bass guitar.