The sun is already beating down at 7.30am as Lotyang Sagal stands next to a deep dark hole at the foothills of the Moroto mountains, ready to dig for gold.
Sagal, wearing a green top hat with an orange band, is eager to get started. Like human moles, he and his companion, have been working these holes for the past three years. And they are not alone. The area around them is pockmarked with small mounds of earth.
Until a few years ago Sagal was a cattle herder, like most semi-nomadic Karamojong people. But now he has joined the gold rush that has the potential to transform Karamoja – a remote region in the north-east of Uganda that is not only the country's poorest, but also its most marginalised.
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