By Witness Radio team One of the East Africa Crude Oil Project (EACOP) victim communities in Hoima district has run to Hoima high court challenging a...
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and...
By Witness Radio team The Wadelai irrigation scheme project funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Nordic Development Fund (NDF) has turned out to be...
UGA 001 / 0923 / OBS 037Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassmentUgandaSeptember 5, 2023The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of...
Scientists with an international rice initiative have been raising the alarm about a strain of bacterial blight causing outbreaks in rice fields in East Africa, and...
By Witness Radio team As the Africa Climate Summit kicks off in Nairobi-Kenya today, at least 61 African Civil Society organizations (CSOs) have petitioned the Secretary-General...
Farmers in Rubanda district are living in fear that they may be hit by famine due to the prolonged drought that has greatly affected the area....
A cross section of residents from the oil-rich Albertine Region have petitioned African heads of state to ban genetically modified organism (GMOs) and crops across the...
Nebbi, Uganda. The Nebbi district veterinary department is struggling to contain an outbreak of the Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP), a disease which is highly fatal in...
By Witness Radio team As land and environmental rights defenders strive to better their areas, they continue to bear the brunt of defending communities’ land rights...