The government through the Ministry of Water and Environment is promoting natural regeneration as a low-cost way of restoring degraded land, with an assessment identifying about...
By the Witness Radio Team The global rush to secure minerals for the clean-energy transition is exposing local and indigenous communities to land dispossession, conflicts, human...
The Commander of the 3 Infantry Division, Brig Gen Michael Hyeroba Wakala, has warned communities in the Karamoja and Teso sub-regions against escalating communal land conflicts,...
Climate Rights International says the 11 defenders have faced repeated court delays since their arrest over a peaceful petition to KCB concerning EACOP financing. Eleven Ugandan...
The rural village of Kapaapi, Bugahya county, Hoima district has turned into a crucible of violence after 1,000 families live under the constant threat of being...
Ex-combatants in Lango Sub-region are counting losses after prolonged dry spells destroyed much of their maize crop during the first planting season, threatening a government-backed project...
By the Witness Radio team. Five years after Uganda embraced its National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, uncertainty remains about whether the policy has...
By the Witness Radio Team. Across Africa, women are the backbone of food systems, households, and rural economies. Yet the land, water, and natural resources they...
By the Witness Radio team On September 17th, 2026, the Witness Radio team visited Namugongo Kyoto Foyers de Charite in Kampala, Uganda, where the grounds buzzed...
Seated is former President of Finland and UNCCD Land Ambassador Tarja Halonen. Standing from left are BSSS President Prof. Paul Hallett, BSSS Executive Director Andrew Morris,...