Why Uganda has East Africa’s highest number of natural disaster IDPs

People use a makeshift bridge in Nanyinza village in Uganda’s landslide-prone Bududa District. PHOTO | AFP

Aida Nandutu is one of several women bent over doing laundry in the River Tsuume, which in October 2018 burst its banks, killing her brother alongside 53 other people.

A few metres away from Ms Nandutu, another woman is also bent over fetching water for household use, with her feet dipped in the river. A little farther upstream, children jump from the rocks left exposed after the mudslide to swim, as if they were launching from diving board into a swimming pool.