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 witnessradio.org Team Seven community land rights defenders including an elderly woman have been arrested by police in Gomba district on grounds of murder and aggravated robbery. This follows a fight between communities defending their land rights and hundreds of casual laborers employed by

By DAN WANDERA KAMPALA. President Museveni yesterday tasked MPs to expedite amendment to land act and demanded that a new clause be introduced to allow bibanja owners to deposit nominal ground rates (busuulu) at the sub-counties. The President said the new amendment should target absent

The new Uganda Land Commission chairperson Beatrice Byenkya Nyakaisiki has said that the government has failed to survey and title most of its land. Byenkya was on Monday speaking

KAMPALA: The land acquisition process for the establishment of Mandela National Stadium, Namboole was marred by fraud, witnesses have today told the Commission of inquiry into Land matters. They

Dr Chris Baryomunsi  The guidelines highlight the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants with regard to evictions of lawful and bonafide occupants. The Ministry of Lands, Housing and

By witnessradio.org Team Four people have been injured and property worth millions of shillings destroyed in a fresh attack on residents in Bukoba, Nalutuntu in Kassanda district. The attack

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

Agriculture might be finally catching financiers’ eye, with money disbursed to farmers topping all other sectors in January, according to official figures released from the ministry of Finance and Economic

Dilapidated. The dam was built in Muhokya five years ago. It is now covered with grass and has developed cracks. PHOTO BY MORIS MUMBERE  By MORIS MUMBERE KASESE. An irrigation

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