The Maasai community living in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a United Nations (UN) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage Site, has renewed resistance to...
April 17, 2026 press release from the offices of eight UN Special Rapporteurs1 calls for the Tanzanian government to immediately publish the findings of two presidential commissions amid growing...
Environmentalists have called on government to strengthen enforcement of environmental laws to curb the continued destruction of wetlands, forests and other natural ecosystems, warning that weak...
The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba, has urged judicial officers to exercise greater diligence and uphold the law when handling land-related cases,...
By the Witness Radio team. KAMPALA, Uganda—The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court sentenced eight environmental activists to 11 months in prison for “public nuisance.” The court...
The government has warned that the growing wave of land-related crimes across the country, caused by unscrupulous land agents, fraudulent transactions, and family inheritance disputes, is...
Hon. Gideon Gatpan Thoar, Chairperson of the EALA Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources, presenting during a plenary sitting of the Assembly. By the Witness Radio...
By the Witness Radio team. Today, April 15, 2026, hundreds of women environmental defenders, community organizations, and allies across Africa and beyond will mark the...
From left: Andrew Gilder, director of Climate Legal; Olivia Tuchten, principal climate change adviser at Promethium Carbon; and Dr Olufunso Somorin, carbon markets coordinator at the...
Local farmer Okumu Weke next to an EACOP route beacon in Nyamtai village, Kikuube District in western region of Uganda. Credit: Maina Waruru/IPS NYAMTAI, Uganda, Apr...