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Randomly ceding huge chunks of territory, the Semliki River has changed course so much over the past half-century that it has transferred as much as 50 square kilometres of Congolese territory to Uganda. Photo/FILE

Randomly ceding huge chunks of territory, the Semliki River has changed course so much over the past half-century that it has transferred as much as 50 square kilometres of Congolese territory to Uganda. Photo/FILE 

By HALIMA ABDALLAH  (email the author)
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Posted  Monday, November 9  2009 at  00:00

Internally, climate change is also affecting the natural boundaries as defined at Independence.

In eastern Uganda, rivers have changed cause, moving the boundaries of Mbale with neighbouring districts as at independence.

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