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Ugandan climate activists rally against planned pipeline They accuse government of 'silencing' them with arrests Authorities reject criticism and say 'the law is clear' By John Okot BULIISA, Uganda, Jan 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U gandan environmental campaigner Judith Bero-Irwoth has spent years warning of the risks of a planned crude oil pipeline and its impact on communities in the west of the country. Protests by activists like Bero-Irwoth have ramped up in the Albertine Graben region and the capital, Kampala, in recent years since France's TotalEnergies and China National Offshore Oil Corporation struck deals to develop Uganda's oil fields.