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Meet Uganda’s 14-year-old Greta Thunberg-inspired climate activist

By Reuters
22 June 2019   |   1:01 pm
Leah Namugerwa is 14 years old and has been wrestling with fears over climate change since seeing scenes of landslides in Uganda on television a few years ago. Now, she's decided to take action.

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