By Witnessradio.org Team   18th/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – a magistrate court in Kiryandongo district has charged the eight (8) land rights defenders and activists, with threatening violence and remanded to Masindi prison. Threatening violence is the latest charge after the charge sheet is

One of witnessradio.org lawyers addressing a group of land rights defenders and activists after they were released By Witnessradio.org Team   09/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – the 8 eight land rights defenders and activists, who were arrested on September, 4th 2020 and detained at Kiryandongo

By Witnessradio.org Team   07/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – Kiryandongo district police is preferring two criminal charges against eight land rights defenders and activists that were illegally arrested and detained over the weekend. According to Kiryandongo police, all members of the group will be

The long awaited relocation of people who were affected by the Karuma hydropower dam construction project is underway. The Government has finalised plans to relocate the over 100 families

By witnessradio.org Team   Kampala – Uganda – the Uganda government has directed that any foreign investor using public land should prove that they have at least 60 percent

A section of Bunamwani clan land where cases of land grabbing are on the rise in Mbale City. PHOTO | FRED WAMBEDE On October 4, 2011, the National Forestry

Byehondozo and her daughter Kakako. Photos by Davis Buyondo LYANTONDE -A family in Lyantonde is seeking to repossess its 49.05 acres of land said to be illegally occupied by

Kampala- As floods wreak havoc across the country, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned of severe drought between November to February 2021 that will cause food scarcity in

Chris Isaac, chief investment officer of AgDevCo by Betsy Henderson Agribusiness in Africa: Investor reveals which areas hold the most potential AgDevCo is an impact investment firm specialising in

Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries; Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja All imported agricultural inputs imports will be passed through gamma ray scanners at all points of entry, authorities have

A farmer applies fertilizer on maize crop Kampala, Uganda | Farmers in Uganda are wrongly applying inorganic fertilizers which has led to pollution and reduction in crop productivity. According

Yesterday was the 16th International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations. In 2004, rural communities in Brazil declared the day to commemorate the resistance against the expansion of

20 years of suffering monoculture effects in Uganda, more hectares of land benefiting local communities continue to be given out to investors for monoculture tree plantations. Forest give aways

21st/09/2020: Kampala – Uganda – As we commemorate the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations, Witness Radio – Uganda together with more than 730 members of Mozambican

KALAGALA, Uganda (Reuters) – For decades, farmers hungry for land and families needing firewood whittled away at Uganda’s forests, home to endangered gorillas, elephants and chimpanzees. Now the decline