KAMPALA. Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has been sued for alleged breach of a Shs4.2b contract in connection with leasing out St Balikuddembe Market stalls. The vendors under their association, St Balikkudembe Market Stalls Space and Lock-up Ltd, sued KCCA before the Kampala High Court

La Via Campesina calls upon its members and allies to mobilize in large numbers. 05 September, Harare: La Via Campesina calls upon its members, allied social movements and civil society organizations in the world to gather and move to jointly build actions against the policies

On 3rd July, the EP adopted an important resolution on the rights violations, including land-grabbing, that indigenous peoples across the world suffer. This resolution includes an important recommendation to EU Members States to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People

By witnessradio.org Team 18 years after the forceful eviction of over 2000 people from the ancestral home by Kaweeri Coffee Plantation Limited in Maduddu Sub County in Mubende district,

On May 24th, 2018, the State Minister for Agriculture Joy Kabatsi put together a list of 19 people and Companies earmarked to benefit from the land and sent it

Harvard University is the owner of 741,000 acres (300,000 hectares) of agricultural land in Piauí and Bahia, in the Brazilian cerrado, that is equivalent to approximately 300,000 soccer fields.

The university’s endowment fund, meant to support educational and research goals, was misused to acquire 850,000 hectares of farmland across 5 continents during the past 10 years An investigative report

Stakeholders in the media fraternity have been advised to utilize provisions within the law to access information where it is denied. Speaking to journalists on media law in Uganda

By witnessradio.org Team Government has been asked to work towards enabling Ugandans access information for improved service delivery in the infrastructure sector. The call was made by the executive

23 February 2018 (Nairobi, Kenya) We, more than 60 civil society organisation and media representatives from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda working on human rights, democratic development, transparency, digital media,

President Museveni has assented to the constitutional amendment bill 2 giving himself a lee way to contest for the same position in 2021. According to head of communications and

First, it was “gossip” that supposedly pushed Uganda’s government to introduce a tax on social media use. Several weeks later, the country’s 72-year-old president Yoweri Museveni changed tack, saying officials were

The study also looked at news literacy levels for the first time, and found that 68 per cent of respondents were unaware of the financial difficulties of news organisations 

Jamii Forums, a popular blogging site in Tanzania, has cited new online content regulations by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) as the reason for its temporary shutdown. The

In an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Access Now is calling upon Facebook to undergo an independent audit of its data processing accompanied by a global human rights assessment. The