Chinese agricultural investments in Africa have sparked fierce controversy, excoriated as colonial plunder or hailed as productive and beneficial to local farmers. But the picture here in Luwero, Uganda, 50 miles north of the capital, is rather one of inaction and incompetence. At the first

Green Resources’ pine plantation in Kachung. Credit: Kristen Lyons / The Oakland Institute. By witnessradio.org Team Two EU member states and Norway are in the spotlight for financing the eviction of native communities in Uganda to pave way for a Norwegian forestry and carbon

Photo was taken by Fian International By witnessradio.org Team  People from across the world are calling on Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni and Neumann Coffee Group CEO Christian Neumann to fully compensate displaced people from Kaweri coffee plantation in Uganda and resettle them on the

A planned disbursement of SEK 10 million by the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) for emissions reductions produced by the Kachung plantation in Uganda, owned by the Norwegian company Green

NEMA Executive Director Tom Okia Okurut The exercise will pave way for resettlement of 48 villages that were evicted by National Forestry Authority in 1998, the authority said. BUSOGA

Green Resources’ pine plantation in Kachung. Credit: Kristen Lyons / The Oakland Institute. By witnessradio.org Team Two EU member states and Norway are in the spotlight for financing the

Photo was taken by Fian International By witnessradio.org Team  People from across the world are calling on Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni and Neumann Coffee Group CEO Christian Neumann to

Livestock farmers in Nakasongola District have suffered another setback following a fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a few days to government’s planned lifting of the cattle quarantine. In

The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Water and Environment, Mr. Alfred Okot Okidi (C) speaks to officials at the event. PHOTO BY RAJAB MUKOMBOZI  BUSHENYI-The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Over 60 per cent of the 13 million head of local breed cattle in the country could be extinct by the year 2050, Joy Kabatsi, the minister of state

Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | For the recent decades, Africa’s indigenous animals such as the East Africa’s sinewy Ankole cattle; a product of the centuries of selection for traits

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