By witnessradio.org Team A new report from the Coalition for Human Rights in Development and the Defenders in Development Campaign reveals the alarming impact, ill-planned investments in infrastructure, energy, and other development activities are having on the safety and wellbeing of human rights defenders

By witnessradio.org Team Tough times are ahead for native land owners in Uganda. This is the case because land grabbers are changing tactics from forceful eviction with the aide of state machinery  to conspiracy with senior public officers who help them obtain certificate of

By witnessradio.org Team Five community leaders have been arrested bringing to 13 in total number of people detained by police in connection to defending their 600 acres of land in Gomba district. On April, 17th, Gomba police mounted an operation targeting land rights defenders and

By TOM MALABA Kampala. The Lands ministry has cancelled a land title on Plot 1038, Block 195, in Kyanja, a Kampala suburb, and reinstated Ms Joyce Akello as the owner.

Napak- President Yoweri Museveni has warned  land grabbers who use his name and office to snatch land in Karamoja. Mr Museveni says he has no interest in Karamoja land.

By Isaac Mufumba In a period of nine months, between September 2005 and May 2006, ownership of the 14.5 acre piece of land that was previously the home of

By witnessradio.org Team A new report from the Coalition for Human Rights in Development and the Defenders in Development Campaign reveals the alarming impact, ill-planned investments in infrastructure, energy,

Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Ugandan sugar millers, cane farmers and the government have for sometime been at loggerheads over a proposal to introduce zoning in the sugar cane

Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Six months since Parliament passed a revised Genetic Engineering Bill, 2018, that included demands by President Yoweri Museveni, he has not signed it into

Kampala, Uganda | The budget allocation for the agriculture sector will in the next financial year pass the 1 trillion Shillings mark for the first time in what officials say

Photo By : Reuters Foundation News By FRED WAMBEDE & MICHEAL WONIALA Napak. The government has started implementing strategies to abolish nomadic pastoralism and promote agriculture as a source of

By Bernard Tabaire The NRM government has essentially criminalised (potentially) strong Opposition politics. It won’t pass a law to that effect though. Its actions, through the security services, are

By NJIRAINI MUCHIR & HALIMA ABDALLAH Kampala. British Oil firm Tullow is set to formally exit active operations in Uganda, after agreeing to a payment plan for taxes on its

Uganda expects to begin producing oil in 2022, its energy minister Irene Muloni said on Feb. 13, indicating a slight delay from the east African country’s revised target of 2021. Uganda discovered crude reserves more than 10

By SADAT MBOGO & MISAIRI THEMBO KAHUNGU Gomba. Uganda’s solar energy generation capacity connected to the national grid will soon hit the 50MW mark within this year as new plants