source: Daily Monitor (Uganda)
actor1: Government of Uganda (1986-)
actor2: Nwoya Communal Militia (Uganda)
location: Nwoya
notes: On and before December 13th, authorities in Nwoya district engaged in a recruitment drive to assemble a vigilante force numbering around 700 (with approx 100 youth drawn from each sub-county of the area), to combat the charcoal trade. A local official noted obstruction from political and business elites, as well as police, who are implied to be involved in the trade.