Plotting the course: I was invited to photograph a group of German geologists who were using very detailed GPS readings to measure how tectonic-plate movement is shifting the Rwenzori Mountains.

From the capital Kampala we travelled north to reach Fort Portal, the last place to buy provisions, then we reached the small village of Ibanda, the gateway to the Rwenzori Mountains National Park.

Last week, the implementing partners for the Sustainable Financing of the Rwenzori Mountains National Park Project gathered to discuss the successes, challenges, lessons learned and way forward as the ...

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The ice and snow at the the top of the Rwenzori Mountains, seen here in 2016, are slowly melting Ronah Masika remembers when she could still see the snowy caps of the Rwenzori mountains ...

Grace Kinyua, an IT project manager, in the Rwenzori Range located in the border of Uganda and DRC. She says home looks and feels like the snow-capped mountains. At 42, home is not just four ...

The Rwenzori Mountains National Park covers nearly 100,000 ha in western Uganda and comprises the main part of the Rwenzori mountain chain, which includes Africa's third highest peak (Mount Margherita ...

Three mountains in Africa are covered by glaciers: Mt Kenya, Rwenzori in Uganda and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. However, the glaciers of all three are receding at a rapid pace. The disappearance of ...

It is a Unesco World Heritage site with several mountains like Mikeno, Nyiragongo (the most active volcanic mountain in Africa), Nyamuringa, and Rwenzori Ranges within its boundaries. The unique ...