For Immediate Release: Breaking: There has been an alarming Rise in Forced Land Evictions in Uganda; over 360,000 Ugandans were Displaced in the First Half...
By Witness Radio team. The Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Labour, Gender, and Social Development (MLGSD), is developing a Management Information System on Business...
By Witness Radio team. Civil society organizations (CSOs), land and environmental defenders, and the government are convening for the sixth time to reflect on the Business...
Tanzanian High Court has dismissed a case filed by Maasai communities to return land violently seized by the government in June 2022 to establish the Pololeti...
The Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is being held from October 21st to November 1st in Colombia. This initiative...
In Congo-Brazzaville, tree planting projects intended for carbon markets have proliferated over the past four years. This concerns large-scale developments of monocultures initiated by oil companies...
By Witness Radio and Südnordfunk teams. Close to 100 activists have been criminalized this year for speaking out about the harm caused by the East African...
By Witness Radio and WoMin teams. Hundreds of African women activists and climate leaders who attended the week-long Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA), held alongside the African...
By Witness Radio team. Africa’s path to recovery from the scars of destructive development projects will take decades. These projects, often presented as “development initiatives,” have...
The UN’s new carbon market will have a compulsory mechanism that aims to prevent developers of carbon credit projects from breaching human rights or causing environmental...