Mixed fortunes for Pakwach, Mbarara iconic solar eclipse sites
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Saturday May 22 2021
Summary
The unique solar eclipse sites in Uganda that were to promote tourism, have witnessed mixed fortunes. While the hybrid solar eclipse monument in Pakwach has been vandalised, the one in Mbarara has been given Shs150m by UNDP to spruce up its architectural radiance,
Bamuturaki Musinguzi writes.
Although Uganda is blessed with two solar eclipse monuments, one celebrating a recent and the other an event 100 years ago, these unique tourism sites are under threat from vandals.
The more recent monument celebrates Uganda’s hosting of a rare hybrid solar eclipse in 2013, which was erected at Owiny Primary School in Pakwach District, north-western Uganda. It was unveiled by President Museveni, but is now being vandalised by unknown people.
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a few sort of tools to enforce the the regulations around the protection of these sites they can put aside on an danger list to warn countries that they have to protect that they can even remove a site from the list but in practice it was kind of toothless i mean they don t tend to do. i mean a great example there is is venice i mean venice has been on the nasco world heritage site list since 1907 but of course venice is really threatened by these huge cruise ships these massive cruise ship see as as we see which are which which are really coming into the lagoon destroying the lagoon flooding the city with with with with tourists causing a lot of problems for locals making up some possible for locals to live in venice the locals have a lot. to remove venice from from the world heritage site list there s been a lot of protests against that but so far has hasn t really done anything they ve talked about removing it but they haven t really done it has have they ever revoked