By Witnessradio.org Team   18th/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – a magistrate court in Kiryandongo district has charged the eight (8) land rights defenders and activists, with threatening violence and remanded to Masindi prison. Threatening

One of witnessradio.org lawyers addressing a group of land rights defenders and activists after they were released By Witnessradio.org Team   09/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – the 8 eight land rights defenders and activists, who

By Witnessradio.org Team   07/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – Kiryandongo district police is preferring two criminal charges against eight land rights defenders and activists that were illegally arrested and detained over the weekend. According

Construction. Officials visit a construction site at Bunambutye Resettlement Site in Bulambuli District last year. PHOTO | FRED WAMBEDE.   Landslide victims at the Bunambutye Resettlement Site in Bulambuli District have asked government to give

Once again, Police in Kiryandongo district is under the spotlight for the arbitrary arrest and detention of land rights defenders and activists By Witnessradio.org Team   04/08/2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – Great Season SMC limited

Seven lawyers for communities were arrested and detained at Kiryandongo police station alongside community members that were being interviewed during the time of arrest.  By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – over 30

By Liam Taylor KIRYANDONGO, Uganda, Aug 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – People came from all over Uganda to Kiryandongo, uprooted by disaster and dispossession. In recent decades thousands have settled in the district, some

Kadaga ordered Kamya to appear before the House within two weeks and explain how the land ended up in private hands. PARLIAMENT|UTL|LAND GRABBING|FRAUD KAMPALA – Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has summoned lands minister Beti

On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because

Three multinational companies have been named in the violent eviction of locals in Kiryandongo district to establish commercial plantations. Agilis Partners, Kiryandongo Sugar Works Ltd and Great Seasons SMC Ltd are the companies implicated

Kampala – Uganda: A new report which was released on the 25th of August, 2020, is exposing how thousands of families are being violently evicted from their farms to make way for foreign-owned plantations in

By witnessradio.org Team The long-awaited report on Kiryandongo forceful land eviction is set to be tomorrow at 10am, East African Standard time. The forceful and violent evictions are being carried out by three multinational companies namely,

Kabarole, Uganda | Kabarole district is unable to process land titles and resolve other land related matters due to the absence of a land board. It follows the expiry of the five year tenure of

By witnessradio.org Team Nakaseke – Uganda – Over 450 residents of Kasambya northward in Ngoma Town Nakaseke District are at the verge of losing their land after receiving a three days’ notice to vacate. The

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – barely four days after witnessradio.org reported about rape and sexual assault as new weapons in forced land eviction in Kiryandongo district, a new case of rape

Ndeeba Demolished Church Kampala, Uganda |  The Grade One Magistrate Court in Makindye has issued criminal summons against city businessman Dodoviko Mwanje and the Field Force Unit-FFU Commander for the Kampala Metropolitan Police South Region

Twaweza’s Marie Nanyanzi In May-June this year, in comparison to the previous month, 6 out of 10 Ugandan households report their food consumption got worse. Rural households (63%), poorer households (72%) and those with

A case of attempted defilement against a 9-year-old girl was reported to police at Bweyale Police Station By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Close to a dozen of women and girls are

Ms Shantel Tumubone, one of the displaced residents, shows the portion of land where she buried her husband on Thursday. PHOTO/ JOSEPHINE NNABBAALE  When New Forest Company evicted Ms Shantel Tumubone, 50, and her

Parvatiben Muljibhai Madhvani Girls’ School – Courtesy Photo The future of 62-year-old Parvatiben Muljibhai Madhvani Girls’ School, commonly known as PMM Girls’ located in Jinja City, hangs in balance after the Uganda Land Commission

St. Peter’s church – Ndeeba before and after demolition  By witnessradio.org Team   Kampala – Uganda – a 49 year old St. Peter’s church – Ndeeba has been demolished by soldiers and police personnel

The exercise will include verification of names of encroachers, plot demarcation, allocation of plots and litigation in case of complaints and the beneficiaries will get between 2.5 and 5 acres of land. Government has allocated

Kampala, Uganda | Parliament has passed the National Coffee Bill, 2018 that provides for registration of coffee farmers by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA). The registration of farmers will entail capturing details of

A man inspects USAID-donated ventilators on their way to Indonesia in the fight against COVID-19. Photo by: Nalendro Photoworks / USAID As always, and during this pandemic in particular, many are looking to the U.S. Agency for International

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | XINHUA | The impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the African continent could be long-lasting, a senior African Union (AU) Commission official stressed on Wednesday. “The consequences of the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering acute hunger, pushing it to more than a quarter of a billion by the end of 2020. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | XINHUA | The

Part of Bugoma Forest Reserve which was given to Hoima Sugar Ltd. PHOTO | EPHRAIM KASOZI  Government has been dragged to court for allegedly allocating more than 68,709 acres of land housing a forest

Kampala, Uganda |  Members of Parliament on the Presidential Affairs committee are investigating circumstances under which 12 land titles in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Kikuube district are in the hands of individuals.  In the 1960s, 50

Justice Catherine Bamugemereire addressing journalists in Kampala on November 8, 2019. PHOTO BY RUTH ANDERAH  By EPHRAIM KASOZI The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters has proposed the formation of a land ombudsman as

Defending tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders For years, land and environmental defenders have been the first line of defence against climate breakdown. Yet despite clearer evidence than ever

About 100 evicted families camped at Alokolum Tecwaa Primary School while other families erected makeshift structures for their members By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo -Uganda – More than 100 families that are part of

Market in Guinea While most of the world was sheltering in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, a hundred families were uprooted from their lush, centuries-old village in western Guinea and relocated to a

By witnessradio.org Team   New York – United Nations – More than 820 million people are sleeping hungry even though the production of food surpasses what is required to feed the 7.8 billion people

Jaswant S. Rai (right) and Tejveer Rai during a press conference The Rai family is in the limelight once again after buying troubled Pan Paper Mills in Webuye for Sh900 million. Pan Paper is

By witnessradio.org Team United Nations – More than 820 million people are sleeping hungry even though the production of food surpasses what is required to feed the 7.8 billion people Worldwide. This has been

One of the Victims of the Poisonous sugarcanes July, 15th 2020: Kiryandongo – Uganda – One of the companies evicting thousands of native communities to plant sugarcane in Kiryandongo district, is currently being investigated

A section of the disputed piece of land where a zonal industrial hub is being constructed at Gangama Village, Nazigo Town Council, Kayunga District. PHOTO BY FRED MUZAALE  A land wrangle between Kayunga District

Ismail Tuku Lugbara Kari Prime Minister. Courtesy photo Arua, Uganda | The Prime Minister of Lugbara Kari Cultural Institution Ismail Tuku has cautioned people in the West Nile region against rushing to sell land in

One of the houses that is under construction on the Kilembe golf course land.  Many unscrupulous people around the country have taken advantage of the current lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic to grab

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – the Seven lawyers who were rounded up and arrested by anti-riot police while interviewing victims of a forceful eviction that has resulted into displacement of over

By witnessradio.org Team   This afternoon, at around 15:00 hours East African time, anti-riot police rounded up and arrested 7 lawyers who were investigating circumstances surrounding the forceful eviction of over 35,000 people being

By witnessradio.org Team Masindi – Uganda – Shock and grief rocked Kiryana Village, Kimengo sub county, Masindi District on June, 24th when families woke up and found more than 15,500 hectares of their land

By witnessradio.org Team Bukedea – Uganda – A Chinese Company: Hainan Qinfu Foods Company limited has dispossessed 1,428 families in Amujeju Village Bukedea district to pave way for fish farming, an investment introduced to

 Part of the land that is under contention A city businessman has rushed to court to stop Kira Municipality officials from forcefully grabbing his land to open up an illegal road. Harold B. Ssemalwadde,

By witnessradio.org Team   Masindi – Uganda – Kiryandongo Sugar limited, a multinational agribusiness company, which has been dispossessing thousands since 2017 in Kiryandongo district, is grabbing another piece of land in the ongoing

By witnessradio.org Team Masindi – Uganda – Lands minister Betty Kamya has ordered a multinational company Kiryandongo Sugar limited to hold any further evictions until a conclusive decision is reached. While touring the contested

Contested. Casual workers weed a maize plantation on one of the farms within the contested area at Obira East Village, Gotapwoyo Sub-county in Nwoya District on April 20. PHOTO | TOBBIAS JOLLY OWINY  

Locals starting their journeys. By witnessradio.org Team   Masindi – Uganda – as Masindi High Court district is set hear today illegal eviction  suits filed by a community of 35000 people in Kiryandongo district

By witnessradio.org Team   Masindi – Uganda – a High Court sitting at Masindi district, mid-western Uganda has fixed the 17th of June, 2020 to hear illegal eviction cases filed by a community of

Rehabilitation. Students of Mbale Progressive Secondary School plant grass at Mbale Municipal Stadium last year. Photo by Yahudu Kitunzi  By YAHUDU KITUNZI A section of residents and local leaders in Mbale District have protested

“Uganda: NGO claims Agilis Partners and Great Seasons violently evicting locals to pave way for agribusiness; Agilis Partners denies claims” Witness Radio claims that Agilis Partners limited and Great Season have resorted to the use of violence to

By witnessradio.org Team   Masindi – Uganda – In an effort to hold investors and their agents accountable and curb COVID-19 lockdown violence and human rights abuse, communities in Kiryandongo district have ran to

Nairobi, 14 May 2020 – As COVID-19 spreads around the world, billions of people have been told to stay at home, practice physical distancing, wash their hands regularly and wear masks. However, these simple

To vacate. Ms Sylvia Namukose, a farmer, works on her garden on part of the 50-acre piece of land that the district authorities want farmers to vacate in Kaiti Village, Namutumba Town Council. PHOTO

By witnessradio.org Team   Masindi – Uganda – lawyers representing more than 35,000 people that are being dispossessed by three multinational companies to give way for agribusinesses, have filed certificates of emergency at Masindi

By witnessradio.org Team   Masindi / Kiryandongo – Uganda – As COVID-19 lockdown continue to impact on Courts’ operations with its limited attention to human rights suits, three (3) multinational companies have taken advantage

Banana plantations were destroyed following a fight over family land in Bwikhonje Village, Busano Sub County Mbale District. Photo by Yahudu Kitunzi  By YAHUDU KITUNZI One person has been killed and five houses torched

May 18, 2020 – In a statement published today, the Coalition urged development finance institutions to ensure that the funding and support they provide for the Covid-19 response, and during the economic recovery period, upholds human

AFRICA – Finnfund, a development financer, has invested US$15 million in a syndicate loan to Export Trading Group (ETG) alongside other investors to enable it further develop its business. Founded in Kenya in 1967,

By witnessradio.org Team   Kampala – Uganda – Witness Radio – Uganda, has petitioned the ministry of security to immediately investigate and take punitive actions against Kiryandongo District security committee for undermining government’s COVID-19

Zombo, Uganda | Police in Zombo district are investigating an incident in which 15 grass thatched houses were set ablaze at a height of a protracted land dispute in Atiak village. Reports from the police

In the framework of the Farmers’ Forum, family farming organizations called for IFAD’s strong involvement in the United Nations Decade of Family Farming. Rome, 14 February 2020 – Family farming organizations from around the world

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Just like any country under lockdown and a curfew, people living in Uganda are obliged to adhere to stipulated guidelines and time limits to be indoor.

By ANTHONY WESAKA Unscrupulous individuals are taking advantage of the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown to grab other people’s land, Daily Monitor has learnt. Ms Isabel Kabanda (not real names), a Facebook user took to her

Some of the bulldozers used to destroy people’s gardens in Kiryandongo By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Despite the existence of government’s order stopping land eviction during the COVID-19 lockdown, three multinational

DUE to the normalcy returning to most parts of northern Uganda, the acreage of farmland being opened up by the IDPs have increased from merely 0.5 to 3.09 per household. This was contained in

Businessman Abid Alam in court where he was charged and remanded on April 16, 2020. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA  Kampala businessman Abid Alam has been remanded to prison over allegations of conspiracy to defeat

Lands minister Betty Kamya By witnessradio.org Team   Kampala – Uganda – the government of Uganda has ordered a total halt of evicting communities from contested land during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. The government

Four Wamala region senior police officers arrested for conniving with Abid Alam to defeat justice ( PHOTO/Courtesy) KAMPALA — The State House Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested four police officers for allegedly mismanaging case files

By witnessradio.org Team   Mubende – Uganda – More than 800 families from Kyamukoona, Kijojolo and Kalagala villages- Mubende District have petitioned the district land board to immediately cancel the land title that was

As COVID-19 crisis rages, 119 groups from 30 countries push urgent demands for rural peoples With governments around the world rushing to contain the further spread of COVID-19, often with restrictive lockdown measures, 119

One of the houses that were dismantled during the evictions By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Police in Kiryandongo has finally succumbed to pressure and released three (3) land rights defenders on

One of the demolished houses  By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Police in Kiryandongo is blatantly abusing a 48-hours constitutional order to illegally detain three (3) land rights defenders for 6 days

Courtesy Photo Front Line Defenders condemns the continued harassment and arbitrary detention of land rights defenders in the Kiryandongo district, which appears to be part of a pattern of reprisals for their activities mobilising

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Four (4) Uganda People Defense Forces (UPDF) officers backing and guarding Kiryandongo Sugar Company have this morning fired live bullets, arrested two community land rights defenders

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – As Uganda begins a 32 day COVID – 19 Lockdown, multinational companies dispossessing more than 35000 natives off their land, have resorted to the use of

Deforestation. A man assembles firewood in Funve Central Reserve in Mazinga Sub-county, Kalangala District, on March 6. PHOTO BY SYLVESTER SSEMUGENYI  Daniel Kaliisa, 45, is a charcoal burner and a resident of Mawaala Landing

By Frontline Defenders Land rights defenders Godfrey Ssebisolo, Erias Wanjala and Fred Mwawula reported that on 12 March their houses, located in Kisalanda village, were bulldozed by Great Season Company Limited. The defenders further

On the spot. The Former Minister for Presidency, Ms Masiko Kabakumba. Ms Kabakumba has been tasked to avail evidence that she completed the payment of 690 acres of land. FILE PHOTO  Former minister for

A look of anguish covers their faces, some break down in tears as they reminisce the events that led to their forceful eviction from a 13-square-mile chunk of land in Kiryandongo district. The evictions

By witnessradio.org Team   Mubende – Kampala – Trial judge Anthony Oyuko Ojok in the matter of the 28 land rights defenders has put all the accused on defense after prosecution closed its case

Defenders speaking to one of their lawyers after they were released. By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – Kiryandongo Magistrate court has bowed down to intense public pressure and released on bail three (3) land

NAKASONGOLA- President Museveni has defended his recent directive to degazette  Kyalubanga Central Forest Reserve in Nakasongola District  to allow sitting households settle peacefully . The eight- square mile forest reserve stretches to four sub-counties including

Beatrice Anywar the State Minister for Environment on left engages a technocrat after submitting. President Yoweri Museveni has issued a directive for the entire Bugoma Forest in western Uganda to be mapped. This was

On 25 February 2020, land rights defenders Godfrey Ssebisolo, Erias Wanjala and Fred Mwawula were arrested by Kiryandongo police. They were later transferred to Dyanga prison in Kiryandongo district, where they have been subjected

“Trapped in the Buffer Zone: Uganda Forest Communities Cast Aside in the Fight Against Climate Change” …For decades, hundreds of people provided for themselves from these gardens and other resources obtained from the forest,

Ojuk Livingstone, the one who’s sued. By witnessradio.org Team   Mubende – Uganda – Ojuk Livingstone, a police Officer attached to Mubende district Police, also an Investigating Officer (IO) in matter of 28 land

Government has been dragged to court over alleged trespass on private land measuring 172 acres in Kireka in Kampala and Wakiso districts belonging to Kireka Estates Limited. In a suit filed by BBM Advocates and

Our challenges against the vicious attacks on Indigenous People’s Human Rights Defenders (IPHRDs) endure. Indigenous Lumad sanctuaries attacked by state-sponsored tribal paramilitaries, Wet’suwet’en land defenders arrested for defending their territories, and the list of Indigenous leaders,

The Chairperson of Uganda Land Commission, Hon. Beatrice Byenkya, addressing the media at Uganda Media Centre on Sustainable Land Management in Uganda. PHOTO via @UgandaMediaCent Kampala, Uganda | Government officials are at the centre of

By witnessradio.org Team   Uganda| Kiryandongo – Barely days after suing the Great Season company, Kiryandongo district Police commander Joseph Bakaleke, Attorney General and others, arrested three (3) land rights defenders and sent them

Victims of an unprecedented land fraud that has allegedly seen over 35,000 people evicted from government land in Kiryandongo will have to postpone their celebrations after President’s directive to have them resettled was defied

By witnessradio.org Team  Kiryandongo – Uganda – Janat Akello, a mother of 7 children has finally lost her only standing and precious house, belongings scattered while others destroyed by a tractor that descended on

Helpless. Family members in front of their grass-thatched hut that faces demolition in Kiryandongo District last Wednesday. PHOTO BY BILL OKETCH  More than 35,000 people from 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from

By witnessradio.org Team Tears, hopelessness and pain is what fills the hearts of over 30,000 people that are being evicted by three private firms in Kiryandongo. The said land formerly hosting government ranches was

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – after seven days of illegal detention at Kiryandongo police station, the three land rights defenders have now been charged with trespassing on land which they have lawfully occupied

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – A court assessor in the criminal trial of the 28 land rights defenders has been attacked and dumped few kilometers away from the court where the trial

The affected residents at Kaberamaido District Headquarters.  Kaberamaido, Uganda  | Over 350 households in Alwa Sub County, Kaberamaido district are bickering with National Forestry Authority over land in Atigo Forest Reserve.  Since Wednesday, different groups

By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – with the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season Company, owned by Sudan nationals based in Dubai have illegally arrested and detained three community land rights

Government is set to degazette Kyarubanga Forest Reserve in Nakasongola District to settle more than 1,800 households. The eight- square mile forest reserve stretches to four sub-counties including Nakitoma, Rwabyata, Lwampanga and Nabiswera. This

By witnessradio.org Team   An agribusiness company supported by the governments of the UK, US and the Netherlands is pushing ahead with a land grab that will displace thousands of families in Uganda.   

Government has cancelled three titles awarded to Buganda Kingdom Princess, Faridah Namusisi Naluwembe Namirembe alias Bwanga Bwamirembe on Makerere University land.   The titles are for plots 14 and 45 on block 253 Kyadondo

State prosecutor Birivumbuka Richard By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – Barely two weeks after Mubende district resident Judge Justice Joseph Murangira has been transferred, a senior state prosecutor Birivumbuka Richard in the matter

Justice Oyuko Anthony Ojok By witnessradio.org Team   Mubende – Uganda – the trial judge in the case of the 28 land rights defenders, currently under criminal trial, has threatened to make the work

Photo: One of the residents’ house that was demolished By witnessradio.org Team   Kiryandongo – Uganda – with the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season Company, owned by the South Sudan nationals is

Members of Parliament on the committee of Physical Infrastructure have asked the Ministry of Lands to avail a report on how the Land Fund was spent in the 2018/2019 financial year. Led by Kasilo

Dialogue. Some of the beneficiaries on Block 125 Plot 18 to 23 land at Ddagala in Kalungi Sub-county attend a sensitisation meeting on Tuesday. PHOTO BY DAN WANDERA At least 1,300 families in Nakasongola

By witnessradio.org Team Hoima – Uganda – more than 600 families that were forcefully and violently evicted from Kyabisagazi II village in Hoima district, were evicted illegally said a Parliamentary select committee that investigated

By URN The National Oil Palm Project has taken over the management, expansion and cultivation of Palm Oil growing across the country. The Project takes over from the Vegetable Oil Development Project, which has

Ms Betty Amongi, the outgoing Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development   KAMPALA- The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development needs at least Shs140 billion to compensate absentee landlords and to implement presidential

Unknown to Makerere, he disposed of the lease interest to Rutungu Investments Limited linked to businessman Ben Kavuya, contrary to the lease agreement. And the plunder is not yet over. Most of the university

The Aswa ranch believed to be the biggest in East Africa is keeping over 1,800 improved breeds of cows like Jazze and Ankole and is expected to produce more Kampala, Uganda | Concerned political

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – the trial Judge in the matter of the 28 land rights defenders has overruled an application by the defense lawyers seeking to block the trial within a

By witnessradio.org Team Virtually three weeks after an abrupt break, the criminal trial for the 28 land rights defenders is resuming today, January 8th, 2020 at Mubende High Court before the visiting judge Justice

At least 394,000 land titles will be affected by the temporary closure of Ministry of Lands Wakiso zonal offices. The Minister of State for Lands Hon Persis Namuganza told the press on Friday that

Stranded. Eviction residents prepare a meal at a temporary settlement in Abim District on Friday. PHOTO SIMON PETER EMWAMU   More than 10,000 people have been evicted from three villages said to be part

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda – One of the five Plaintiffs in the Civil Suit No 2563 of 2016 (former No 179 of 2002) against Kaweeri coffee plantation and Attorney General over illegal

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda – One of five plaintiffs in the Civil Suit No. 2563 of 2016 (former No. 179 of 2002) against Kaweeri coffee plantation and Attorney General over illegal and

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda – Victims of the Kaweeri coffee forceful eviction will meet this Thursday to decide on whether to agree on the out of court settlement or not. This comes

The climate emergency is real. So how is it possible that those who have protected and still protect the Earth are being falsely accused of crimes and locked up in prison? Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Kyabisagazi village in Hoima district where over 600 families were evicted this year By witnessradio.org Team Hoima – Uganda – After years of despair and failure for state organs to protect native land owners,

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda – Government has asked for more time to make a final decision on compensating victims of the Kaweeri forceful eviction. This happens following a court session held today

By witnessradio.org Team The re-trial of a 19-year-old Kaweeri Coffee land grabbing case resumes early this December 2019. Human rights groups have released a disturbing report which shows that Kaweeri Coffee evictees have suffered

After twenty years of negotiations, the European Union is in the process of advancing one of the world’s largest free trade agreements with four states of Mercosur. The planned agreement suggests a political path that

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – As a criminal trial for the 28 land rights defenders enters its 15th day, trial judge Justice Anthony Oyuk Ojok has ordered Mubende district police to investigate

Judge Joseph Murangira PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA. By witnessradio.org Team Barely three months after he recused himself from a case involving 28 land rights defenders over bias, Mubende resident judge, Joseph Murangira is in the

African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) will not fund a coal-fired power plant project in Kenya and has no plans to finance new coal plants

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – More than 50 witnesses have been lined up to testify in a 30 day-long trial of 28 land rights defenders, which kicked off on November 11th, 2019.

Justice Anthony Oyuk Ojoko. By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – the criminal Trial for the jailed 28 land rights defenders has kicked off today at Mubende high court circuit in a special criminal

Kampala, Uganda | The fate of numerous pending complaints filed at the Land Commission of Inquiry for investigations hang in balance as the tenure of the Commission ends. The Commission of Inquiry into land matters

Justice Catherine Bamugemereire addressing journalists in Kampala on November 8, 2019. PHOTO BY RUTH ANDERAH  The commission of inquiry into land matters chaired by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire has closed its public hearings today (November

MP Anthony Ssemuli (left) and LCV Chairperson Kibuuka Francis Amooti (right) By witnessradio.org Team Two Mubende district leaders have joined the campaign seeking to disqualify prosecutor Birivumbuka Richard from the case against 28 land

Inspection. Mutungo Zone II chairperson Adam Kibuuka (left) stresses a point to Justice Catherine Bamugemereire (in white jacket) and land commissioners during a field tour of Mutungo Hill in February. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda – Witnessradio.org has petitioned the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) calling for investigations into the continued aiding of persecution of community land rights defenders and native land-owners. Witnessradio.org,

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – As the criminal trial for 28 land rights defenders is rescheduled to Monday, November, 11th, 2019, defense lawyers have applied for the disqualification of state prosecutor Birivumbuka Richard

By witnessradio.org Team Masindi – Uganda – A case in which over 2300 families are accusing a multi-million agribusiness Agilis Partners limited of illegal eviction has been saved by the intervention of witnessradio.org‘s lawyers.

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – Prosecution in the case in which 28 land rights defenders has so far failed to make full disclosure of evidence-  to the defense lawyers citing copier breakdown. On

By Witnessradio.org Team In a civil suit filed in a French court, six Non -Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have accused Total over its oil drilling project in Uganda saying the French energy giant has failed

A total of 1,000 families of Amujaju Village, Kabarwa Sub-county in Bukedea District, are crying for help after they were allegedly evicted from their ancestral land by State House officials. The families that are

The Commission of Inquiry into land matters has canceled the land title belonging to police spokesperson Fred Enanga and his father George Econga Okabo, a retired superintendent of police because it is shrouded in

Esther Turyahebwa enters her hut in Kijayo IDP camp, Kikuube District. PHOTO BY FRANCIS JJINGO  By Francis Jjingo It is around 4pm when my cameraman and I arrive at Kijayo internally displaced peoples’ camp

Some of the 28 land rights defenders in court By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – Prosecution in the case in which 28 land rights defenders who are accused of murder yesterday partially disclosed evidence

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda – After a year of detention without trial, the 28 land rights defenders have appeared on Friday, the 11th/10/2019 before High Court judge  Anthony Oyuko Ojoko and denied

Lawyer Eron Kiiza By witnessradio.org Team Mubende – Uganda: Eron Kiiza, the lead counsel, for the 28 jailed land rights defenders was on Thursday briefly detained at Kaweeri government Prison. The arrest stemmed from

Squatters on the land in Lusanja have appealed against the High Court’s decision that ordered them to vacate it within 30 days following a successful suit by businessman Medard Kiconco. Through their lawyers of

By witnessradio.org Team Masindi – For the second time, in a row, the High Court in the western town of Masindi has declined to stop Agilis Partners limited, a multi-million agribusiness company from forcefully

By witnessradio.org Team Virtually one year of being detained, without trial, 28 land rights defenders are now set the face the court of law this very month. October, 10, 2019, has been listed by

On the ground. President Museveni addresses residents of Sekanyonyi-Lusanja in Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso District on October 16, 2018. PHOTO BY EPHRAIM KASOZI.  The long awaited judgment for the Lusanja land case has been

Project. An irrigation scheme in northern Uganda. Residents of Atiak Sub-county in Amuru District have rejected a Shs70b irrigation system, claiming it is a ploy to grab their land. FILE PHOTO  A project undertaken

File photo: Evelyn Anite  Kampala, Uganda | State Minister for privatization and Investment Evelyn Anite has said that a number of fake investors are being aided by middlemen and land brokers to grab land

Processing of local rice by a women’s cooperative in Dioro, Mali. Photo: FAO/Michela Paganini The convergence of the climate crisis and rising food imports in Africa is a recipe for catastrophe. Unless actions are

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala/Mubende – Justice Joseph Murangira is the complainant in the case in which city lawyer Eron Kiiza is accused of libel at the Criminal Investigations (CID).  For weeks, Kiiza who is

By witnessradio.org Team Masindi – High Court in Masindi on October 2nd, will deliver a ruling on a temporary injunction application seeking to stop a multi-million agribusiness company from forcefully evicting over 2300 families.

Kampala/Mubende – The lawyer is currently representing over 3000 inhabitants who were forcefully if not violently evicted from their land covering five villages in Mubende municipality- Mubende district. Kiiza’s clients lost their livelihoods to

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SIGN THE PETITION HERE On August 18, 2001, the Ugandan army violently expelled over 400 local peasant families – 2,041 inhabitants – from their land in Mubende districts in the villages of Kitemba, Luwunga,

A team of lawyers representing Attorney Eron Kiiza. By witnessradio.org Team Kampala/Mubende – The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Uganda police has so far developed a cold foot when tasked to disclose a complainant

By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda police has issued criminal summons against Human Rights Lawyer Eron Kiiza. Kiiza who is currently representing 3000 victims of land grabs in Mubende district and the 28 land

A planned disbursement of SEK 10 million by the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) for emissions reductions produced by the Kachung plantation in Uganda, owned by the Norwegian company Green Resources, has been delayed due

NEMA Executive Director Tom Okia Okurut The exercise will pave way for resettlement of 48 villages that were evicted by National Forestry Authority in 1998, the authority said. BUSOGA – National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

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

Photo was taken by Fian International By witnessradio.org Team  People from across the world are calling on Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni and Neumann Coffee Group CEO Christian Neumann to fully compensate displaced people from

Courtesy Photo By witnessradio.org Team In defiance of a court order, a Catholic Church priest and five other people have been charged with murder, in a Grade one court found in the central district

By witnessradio.org Team Mityana district police headed by Mwine Alex Mukono has defied court orders to release a community land rights defender and five (5) others that have been held in its cells for

By witnessradio.org Team Mityana district – A Chief Magistrate Court has ordered Mityana police headed by Maine Alex Mukono to unconditionally release six (6) people who have been held in police custody since 7th

KAMPALA- The chairperson of Jinja District Land Board, Ms Innocent Ngobi Ndiku, and the Jinja land officer, Mr Fred Waiswa, have named Jinja Municipality West Member of Parliament Moses Balyeku among those they claimed peddled

By witnessradio.org Team witnessradio.org lawyers have sued Mityana district police commanders Mwine Alex Mukono and the attorney general for illegally and unlawfully detaining community land rights defenders plus five other people for over 14

The National Forestry Authority has recovered about 100 hectares of land from encroachers in Mabira forest. Tom Rukundo the director forest management in NFA reveals that 50 hectares of the recovered land has been

The Equal Opportunities Commission has directed the Government to resettle the Banyabindi community, a minority ethnic group in Kasese District. Members of the ethnic group petitioned the commission in 2017, alleging they are denied

By witnessradio.org Team The Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) in Mityana Municipality is at the centre of a land altercation in which it’s dislodging an elderly a widow together with her family from the

Ms Nancy Oryema, appears before the land probe team, over the 6,500 acres of family land allegedly grabbed by Maj Gen Charles Otema and others at large in Nwoya District. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA 

By witnessradio.org Team  Having suffered for approximately 18-years, inhabitants evicted from their land by Kaweeri Coffee Plantation limited in the Central District of Mubende have settled for compensation as a court guided mediation process

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

Intervention. Ms Susan Abbo, the presidential assistant in-charge of land and legal affairs at State House, addresses tenants at a stakeholder meeting in Bugaayo Village, Kalagala Sub-county in Luweero District at the weekend. PHOTO

By witnessradio.org Team Five people including an entire village leadership have been arrested by police in Mityana district after the murder of Mulinde Kamada Kimbugwe who was passing off as a landlord. Those arrested

Grace Anyang, 32, bundles a pile of freshly cut wood tied using grass neatly knotted for a rope. She is a South Sudanese refugee residing at Pagirinya Refugee Settlement Camp in Adjumani District. The

By witnessradio.org Team   A court in Mityana district has jailed three community land defenders including local council chairperson on charges of attempted murder however, their imprisonment is linked to their involvement in defending

Kampala, Uganda | The administrator of the contested land in Lusanja Wakiso District has denied selling the land to its claimants. Paul Katabazi Bitarabeho told court that his sister; Chrispa Bitarabeho illegally sold off

The overlapping crises of climate change, mass species extinction, and an unsustainable global food system are on a collision course towards what might best be called an ecological land grab. Coping with each of

Almost eighteen years after the evictees were expelled from their lands, the court has finally ordered a mediation until 28 August 2019. We urge you to support the evictees’ demands for the full restitution

By CISSY MAKUMBI At least 2,100 people, who were forced to leave their villages and camped at Juka Trading Centre in Apaa Parish following clashes between the Madi and the Acholi, have urged government

IMA, PERU — MORE THAN three environmental activists were murdered around the world each week last year, according to a new human rights report. Most of them were indigenous or rural campaigners trying to protect

By witnessradio.org Team A civil suit plus a criminal case file against 28 human rights Defenders in Mubende district have taken a new twist as Kampala High Court calls both files for scrutiny and

By Witnessradio.org Team Days after Mubende High Court resident Judge Joseph Murangira recused himself from the matter against 28 human rights defenders, Court will tomorrow sit to determine whether to pass an injunction stopping

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende district resident Judge Joseph Murangira has recused himself from a hearing case involving 28 land rights defenders among others. The 28 human rights defenders were arrested and charged with nine

by Helen Castell As China’s government pledges to help funnel more aid, development finance and private-sector capital into African agriculture, what’s motivating the flow and is it having a positive impact? The flow of

The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) to stop funding projects especially of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that result to landgrabbing

A human rights lawyer and activist, Eron Kiiza has come under fire for allegedly writing offensive Facebook posts against the Mubende resident judge, Joseph Murangira.Uganda Law Society (ULS) a body charged with ensuring high

By witnessradio.org Team The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has announced that its investigating Mubende High Court justice Joseph Murangira over his conduct. The development stems from a complaint filed by Mr.  Ronald Mugwambya and

By witnessradio.org Team Human Rights Lawyers representing over 3000 people challenging their illegal eviction from five villages in Mubende district have protested the manner in which High Court judge Joseph Murangira is conducting this

About 500 families in Kasanje Village, Kyesiiga Sub-county in Masaka District face an uncertain future after a court on Friday ordered their eviction from a 350-acre piece of land, Chimp Corps report.  In his ruling, Masaka

FILE PHOTO: The Bamugemereire commission on land Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emotions and tears filled Nakapiripirit district council hall when residents who reportedly lost land to government and Moroto Catholic Diocese broke their

FILE PHOTO: Chief Justice, Bart Katureebe Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief Justice, Bart Katureebe has tasked Justice Joseph Murangira to respond to the allegations of bias leveled against him by more than

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

Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago (right) addressing Lusanja land eviction victims on July 10, 2019 as other Opposition leaders, including Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine look on. PHOTO BY MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI

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

Surveying. A government surveyor measures a piece of land in Busamuzi Sub-county, Buvuma District, last year. PHOTO BY DENNIS SSEBWAMI  KAMPALA. The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has set a target to register

By witnessradio.org team Victims of the Kambuye land evictions in Mubende municipality, Mubende district have filed a civil suit before Mubende High court seeking compensation and an order to have them back to the land in contention. The

By witnessradio.0rg Team Three people who were arrested in connection to Land evictions in Kambuye have gone missing. They include Grace Nantubiro, Ronald Mugwanya, and Focus Mugisha. These are part of the group of 28

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