Green Resources’ pine plantation in Kachung. Credit: Kristen Lyons / The Oakland Institute. By witnessradio.org Team Two EU member states and Norway are in the spotlight for financing the eviction of native communities in

By witnessradio.org Team Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) is in possession of an illegal land title for more than 867 hectares of land reserved for the development of Karamoja Industrial Park, according to the Commission

Drama ensued at Mubende High Court on Thursday as Justice Joseph Murangira’s bodyguard assumed his boss’ position to preside over court. On Thursday, the 11th of July 2019, the court presided over by Justice

By witnessradio.org Team Three land rights defenders who went missing from Kaweeri prison in Mubende district four (4) days ago have been found being detained in different remote prisons, some outside the jurisdiction the

Mr Patrick Mulindwa a former legislator of Kasambya County, Mubende District, addresses residents at Kyampisi Trading Centre at the weekend. PHOTO BY JOSEPHINE NNABBAALE  Mubende. The National Forest Authority (NFA) has ordered more than 1,000

By witnessradio.org Team A new report from the Coalition for Human Rights in Development and the Defenders in Development Campaign reveals the alarming impact, ill-planned investments in infrastructure, energy, and other development activities are

By witnessradio.org Team Tough times are ahead for native land owners in Uganda. This is the case because land grabbers are changing tactics from forceful eviction with the aide of state machinery  to conspiracy

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,

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

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

By witnessradio.org Team Thousands of native families in Kiryandongo district are facing violent and forceful eviction by Agilis Partners from a piece of land they have occupied for decades. The situation worsened after the

By witnessradio.org Team 15 outspoken natives who have been mobilising fellow peers to resist an illegal and violent eviction targeting their land are facing persecution from Kiryandongo district security committee. The persecution is meant

By witnessradio.org Team As the World Bank’s 20th Annual Land and Poverty Conference gets underway, the Oakland Institute is urging the World Bank to immediately put an end to the bank’s attack on land

By witnessradio.org Team Respect for rule of law is at stake in Uganda as court orders are not anymore powerful enough to stop land evictions, witnessradio.org can reveal. Mubende district in particular is singled

By witnessradio.org and agencies Patrick Lwanga Zizinga, 52 a resident of Makandwa Kajjansi Wakiso district was only nine years old when his father died in 1976. Little did he predict a ravaging land wrangle

Businessman Medard Kiconco wanted the court to issue an interim order against the Lusanja residents, stopping them from reconstructing houses on the disputed land. The High Court has declined to halt the ongoing reconstruction of

By witnessradio.org  Team A case in which Kaweeri Coffee Plantation Limited is accused of dispossessing 11.6 square mile piece of land for over 2000 inhabitants in Mubende district for a coffee plantation and factory

By witnessradio.org Team One of Uganda’s oldest forced eviction cases in which Kaweeri Coffee Plantation limited is accused of dispossessing land for over 2000 inhabitants is coming back in courtroom, now to hear a

By witnessradio.org Team A certificate of private mailo title of land  with over 3000 inhabitants at Kambuye village were forcefully evicted using a forged land certificate,  created and changed three times in an hour

Photo by Oxfam Uganda By witnessradio.org Team Nakiggundu Christine, an elderly mother was arrested and charged with two counts including theft of a motorcycle while her two children are in Kiboga police detention. She’s

Oakland, CA – In advance of the release of the World Bank’s 2019 Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) report, the Oakland Institute exposes the Bank’s new scheme to privatize land in the developing

By witnessradio.org Team More than 30 local council one (1) chairpersons, land rights defenders and native land owners are languishing in different prisons in both Mubende and Kassanda districts over defending their land rights,

By witnessradio.org Team Faded hope: over 1500 Families that were part of 2,300 violently evicted and their land was dispossessed by Agilis Partners limited, cannot find resettlement as their new home is now Internally

The university’s holdings in developing markets have proved to be more trouble than they’re worth. Fourteen years ago, a Brazilian farmer named Ruthardo Grun says he was terrorized by armed thugs who shot at

President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an inquiry into an appalling land eviction matter in Lusanja Parish in Ssekanyonyi Zone, Nangabo Sub-County Wakiso District where over 70 families were evicted and 350 houses destroyed affecting

The African Development Bank and the FAO form a new strategic alliance that involves joint advocacy and policy advice activities to promote the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems. The African

By witnessradio.org team As witnessradio.org joins the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day in support of victims of torture 2018, acts of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are existing and

By witnessradio.org Team “The government that settled us on 2600 hectares of land is violently evicting us off the land without resettlement or compensation…please honor your words and actions” Nyamalebe landless farmers association members,

By witnessradio.org Team LandevictionsinUganda.witnessradio.org  with more than 2 million smallholder farmers across Uganda believed to have lost their farming land by 2017. Its an initiative of witnessradio.org that monitors, maps, collects, investigates, analyses, visualize

By witnessradio.org Team  The Land Inquiry Commission is to visit Kiryandongo district to undertake an in-depth investigation into the illegal eviction of over 5000 natives from former government ranches in Bunyoro sub region.  The

By witnessradio.org Team Deep in Canan village in Kiryandongo Sub County, land hosting thousands of indigenous communities totaling to 2600 hectares was silently given out to Agilis Partners limited for agribusiness. Agilis partners is

By witnessradio.org Team “I have lived on this land since 1940. It has been a source of our past and current livelihood as a family. My family has houses, graveyards, coffee and banana plantations

By witnessradio.org Team “I was shot in my left arm while attending my class lessons. It took me about 5 minutes to realize that I had been shot at because when we heard gun

By witnessradio.org Team 15 outspoken natives who have been mobilising fellow peers to resist violent evictions targeting their land are facing persecution from Kiryandongo district security committee. The persecution is meant to threaten community

By witnessradio.org Team People under the association known as Nyamalebe Landless Association accuse companies; Agilis Partners Limited and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited of colluding with the police and the office of the Resident District Commissioner

By witnessradio.org Team   “My ten (10) acres of land were taken after I was forcefully paid Uganda Shillings 1,577,500 equivalent to US $ 439. My land has been my occupation for the last

By witnessradio.org Team Following the Petition filed on 14th/March/2018 by witnessradio.org to the Land Inquiry Commission, the commission led by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire has halted violent land evictions in Kiryandongo District. The district security committee including Kiryandongo police,

Witnesradio.Org Petitions Land Inquiry Commission To Investigate Violent Eviction Of Over 5000 Families From Former Government Ranches In Bunyoro Sub Region By witnessradio.org Team witnessradio.org is asking the Land Inquiry Commission to expeditiously investigate

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