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African elephants stand under a tree at the Murchison Falls National Park in northwest of Uganda, on January 25, 2020. When exploitable crude oil deposits were discovered in 2006 in the Lake Albert region, Uganda began to imagine itself as a new oil Eldorado. But 14 years later, the mirage has faded, and it is still waiting to extract its first drops of black gold This discovery had raised wild hopes in a country where 21% of the population lives in extreme poverty. The Ugandan government saw the prospect of earning at least $1.5 billion a year and increasing its GDP per capita from $630 to over $1,000. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)
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