The State of Uganda’s Air Quality: How Safe Is Uganda’s Air? The Alarming Findings You Need to Know!

Air pollution is silently killing thousands of Ugandans every year. According to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), an estimated 13,000 deaths annually are linked to air pollution. So how safe is the air we breathe and what is being done to protect Ugandans? In this episode of Stalking Science Africa, we sit down one-on-one with Dr. Akankwasa Barirega, the Executive Director of NEMA, for an in-depth and sometimes hard-hitting conversation on the true state of air pollution in Uganda.