Abstract
On 28 August 2020, the press reported ten children killed and four injured by a lightning strike while they were playing soccer near Odramacaku trading center, a small town close to the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In October 2020, less than two months after the incident, the African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network (ACLENet) sent a team to make a detailed investigation through interviews and site inspection. Four survivors had sustained injuries, physical and psychological, many with potentially life-long medical after- effects and disabilities. Some local people connected spiritual connotations to the incident. Local officials and community members expressed frustration with the government's lack of acknowledgment and response to the disaster despite the new district structure for disaster response initiated in response to the United Nations Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction to which Uganda is a signatory.
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