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Women key to solving climate crisis, says Ugandan school striker

Women key to solving climate crisis, says Ugandan school striker

SONIA ELKS STUDENT Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is at the forefront of Uganda's Fridays for Future strikes - but it was years until the 22-year-old realised her own family were victims of climate change. Storms and drought forced Nakabuye's family to sell their livestock and almost all their land a decade ago, and she was forced out of school for months over unpaid tuition fees. None of them understood why their luck had turned so bad. "We all didn't know it was because of climate change," Nakabuye told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview from the Ugandan capital, Kampala,…
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