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By Ashoka Mukpo This is the second of a two-part series on climate-related disasters in western Uganda. Read Part One here. KASESE, Uganda Right as the Nyamwamba River emerges from the foothills of western Ugandas Rwenzori Mountains and begins its final descent onto the savanna, it passes by a curious sight. On the far bank from the road, past piles of sun-bleached stones on the now-dry riverbed, the earth has been disturbed. Towering walls stand naked and exposed amid the surrounding hills, as if a mighty hand has taken a scoop from the very landscape itself. Sheer cliffs emerge abruptly f