Bukenya Paul in a green shirt By witnessradio.org Team Having been sentenced to three years in prison by the Mubende Chief Magistrate’s court for attempting to murder a one Matia Muhanguzi, Bukenya Paul never

By BILL OKETCH Five people have been arrested following a violent protest at Maruzi Ranch in Apac District. Those arrested included Mr Alex Okello, 35, Mr Jackson Omara, 28, Mr Yakobo Okao, 18, Mr

By witnessradio.org Team 2018, climaxed and ended blatant violation of peasants rights and food sovereignty among others.  It entered in historical books that ushered a legal instrument that will ensure that peasants’ rights, food

By witnessradio.org Team The High Court sitting in Mubende district has allowed lawyers representing land defenders to file in supplementary affidavits introducing more sureties to support the bail application filed earlier. witnessradio.org ’s staff

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

Joy. A section of the beneficiaries of the 300 mailo land titles dance after receiving their respective titles at Kirema Primary School in Nakaseke District on Saturday.  NAKASEKE. President Museveni has handed more than 300

By witnessradio.org Team A magistrate court in Mubende district has charged witnessradio.org‘s member Nantubiro Grace with murder and aggravated robbery before being remanded to Kaweeri prison. Nantubiro who’s the in-charge of civic engagement and

Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda greets Chris Baryomunsi who represented the Lands minister Betty Amongi at Gulu state lodge on December 7. Looking on is Ms Grace Kwiyucwiny, Northen Uganda State Minister. PHOTO BY

By witnessradio.org Team Barely two weeks after seven (7) community land defenders were sentenced to a 34-year jail term by Mubende High court, another group of 16 community land defenders that have been defending

Kampala. The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters has directed for a fresh boundary opening on various plots of land on Block 185 in Namavundu, Namugongo to establish the right owner of the contested land.

The Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry into land matters, Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, at one of the public hearings. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA The High Court has quashed the order by the Commission of

Kampala. The High Court has ordered Ham Enterprises Limited and the Attorney General (AG) to submit their original building plans for the redevelopment of Nakivubo War Memorial Stadium. Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the

By witnessradio.org Team Access to land justice in Uganda is a nightmare as judiciary is admitting its limited capacity to handle overwhelming land cases filed in court each new day. Since 2007/8 financial crisis,

In one of the most heart-rending revelations, a senior registrar of titles at the ministry of Lands, has admitted masterminding a fraudulent land transaction in which she created and issued a fake special certificate

By witnessradio.org Team Key members of Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS) are being targeted and used by land speculators and grabbers to frame frontline land defenders with criminal charges to harass, intimidate with

Kampala. At least 40.8 per cent of Karamoja land has been gazzetted for conservation by government and locals restricted from using it optimally, a human rights report has revealed. The report on “extractive industries, land

By witnessradio.org/farmlandgrab.org The World Bank Group between 2006 and 2016, has directly funded at least 14 large land deals spanning at least 900,000 hectares and provided securities financing to over 700,000 more in Africa,

By witnessradio.org team Clouds of darkness hit Mubende courtroom at 1PM on November 23rd and turned into a grieving moment for families of the 5 community land rights defenders who had gone to receive

By witnessradio.org Team The long-awaited case in which bonafide occupants of Kaweeri Coffee Plantation land demand reinstatement and compensation for illegal and violent land eviction has been fixed for hearing on 11th March 2019

By witnessradio.org team The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly has voted in favour of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural

Kampala. The 500 families facing imminent eviction from land in Seeta–Miggo and Nkwale in Mityana District were not given an opportunity to buy the land for themselves or compensated before the family of the late

By witnessradio.org team Its a 3rd anniversary of no action since the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural and Social Rights (CESCR) called on the government of Uganda with immediate effect to ensure

Masaka. At least 700 residents in two villages in Kyesiiga Sub-county, Masaka District, have up to January to look for alternative land for settlement or else be evicted. The residents say they have settled on

Kampala. Rice farmers in Butaleja District have petitioned the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters seeking to block prominent businessman Malik Koire, Mr Kadri Hifude and some police officers from utilising the contested land where

By witnessradio.org Team It was supposed to act as a guideline to what is accepted in society including recognizing land tenure systems, directing land access, ownership and land use. Twenty years down the road,

By witnessradio.org team Lydia Nakawunde was only seven years when government evicted thousands of people 18 years ago to pave way for coffee growing by German-firm  Kaweeri coffee factory. Memories of men in Ugandan

ln a statement issued last week, the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters blamed judicial officials for the rising cases of land evictions which have engulfed some parts of the country. The Judiciary reacted

By witnessradio.org Team The Finnish Development Finance Iinstitution (FINNFUND) is concerned about effects from its own financed carbon offset projects in Uganda that have negatively impacted on the local communities. FINNFUND is an investment

A group of 3,500 Bibanja holders in Kyankwanzi district, who are on the brink of eviction from a three-square mile land in three villages, have petitioned the land probe commission.  The probe has since

Kampala, Uganda | Uganda Land Commission-ULC is seeking policy direction to compensate the people affected by the East African crude oil pipeline construction. The 1400 kilometer crude oil pipeline worth US$ 3.55bilion is expected

By Charlie Mitchell  The UAE signed a deal with Uganda on Monday to establish one of the world’s only agricultural free zones in a bid to enhance food security in the Emirates.  The 2,500

Moroto. The Minister in-charge of Karamoja Affairs, Mr John Byabagambi, said he will arrest people grabbing land in Karamoja under the pretext of investment. Minister Byabagambi said the current land rush in Karamoja poses a

Mityana. The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters has halted the eviction of more than 2,000 families from four villages in two sub-counties in Mityana District pending investigations into ownership disputes. During a fact-finding

By witnessradio.org Team   The “UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas” was presented in the UN headquarters to the Third Committee of the General Assembly on

A Court of Appeal judge has in a no-holds-barred missive exposed the rot in courts and Judiciary, offered evidence on how judges connive with land grabbers, and lashed out at what she called the

The Kampala Catholic Archdiocese has strongly denied accusations that it’s trying to fraudulently take over Ntinda nursery and primary school land located in Ntinda in Nakawa division. The Universal Primary Education (UPE) school based

State Minister for Water Ronald Kibuule has been named before the land inquiry for backing eviction of hundreds of families from a 488-acre land comprising three villages in Nama Sub-county, Mukono District. Lawyer Peter

By D. Amari Jackson When it comes to our global climate, few would argue that growing more trees is a bad thing. After all, forests naturally soak up greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and

By witnessradio.org/  Land portal The first official results from an international survey of how secure people feel in their homes and on their land reveal that in the initial 15 countries surveyed, 25% of citizens are

By witnessradio.org Team A Norwegian plantation forestry and carbon offset company, Green Resources is being pinned for causing social, cultural, and environmental damage in two districts of Uganda that host its carbon projects. In

One of the world’s major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos

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

Responsible, sustainable and innovative approach for the next five years EBRD the most active multilateral institution in agribusiness in its regions EBRD investment in the agribusiness sector to date exceeds €6.7 billion Addressing the

By witnessradio.org team Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Food Day, 2018, it’s worrying to note increasing acts of violence from native communities in a bid to fight back their

KAMPALA. As government prepares to resettle victims of the Bududa mudslide disaster on a disputed Shs8b land at Mabaale Village, Bunambutye Sub-county in Bulambuli District, the claimants say they must first be paid and resettled.

On the ground. President Museveni addresses residents of Sekanyonyi-Lusanja in Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso District, yesterday.  Wakiso. Emotions ran high yesterday as President Museveni toured a 75-acre land where hundreds of families were violently evicted

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

New UN report highlights drastic increase in violence and legal harassment driven by rapid expansion of development projects on indigenous lands A significant pattern of abuse has emerged in a wide variety of countries, in

Kampala. The wrangling over ownership of a 366-acre piece of land held by National Social Security Fund (NSSF) at Temangalo in Wakiso District, has taken a new twist after businessman Amos Nzeyi was accused

The land probe chairperson, Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, directed Abbas Mawanda to appear before the commission. KAMPALA – The Land Commission of Inquiry has summoned the man who sold the Temangalo land to industrialist Amos Nzeyi

One of the most contested issues underlying land disputes is the concept of a kibanja, which was introduced in Buganda land system in 1928. Since 1975, people have been moving on registered land without

Tycoon Amos Nzeyi is in trouble for selling the Tamangalo land to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) without proper documentation. The Indian family is determined to take back the land, meaning Nzeyi could

Legislators on the Parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure and the Catholic Church have called for the implementation of a National Land Policy to empower local women gain access to land Legislators on the Parliamentary

Cross Culture Foundation of Uganda’s Fredrick Nsibambi addresses the media flanked by Joel Cox Ojuko of Equal Opportunity Commission at Media Centre in Kampala. Photo by Ramadhan Abbey The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) and

Kabarole- Close to two decades since the restoration of cultural institutions, Tooro Kingdom has renewed its call to central government for the return of kingdom properties. The kingdom’s prime minister, Mr Benard Tungwako, expressed disappointment

Residents of Rupa Sub County in Moroto District in Karamoja sub region have said that President Museveni is backing prominent Karimojong business man Mr Cornelius Kodet and some ministers to grab their land. The

Tenure security plays a central role in driving rural transformation. It is a powerful means for enhancing the sustainability of development efforts and empowering rural people. Given the importance of tenure security, IFAD entered

Probed. State Minister for Lands Persis Namuganza Kampala. A minister on Tuesday questioned the usefulness and work methods of the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire-led Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters, and said the commissioners need to

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Photo–Flickr. A Ugandan Member of Parliament has called on the country’s dictator of 32 years to order his army to halt deadly illegal evictions of rural farmers, while also praising

Helpless. Some of the victims of Apaa land conflict camp at the UN offices in Gulu Town last Friday. Gulu. Hundreds of locals who have for the last one month camped at the UN

Above; Acholi Prime Minister, Mr Ambrose Olaa “We are advising the government to refrain from the current activities on land matters. If this message is ignored, we shall not hesitate to refer the case

“There will be no customary land in Northern Uganda in the next five years if you don’t wake up now. All land will be individual lands. Even today, there are more than fifty applications

From Solidarity Uganda Rural farmers of Apaa, northern Uganda, have occupied the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (Gulu) for more than three weeks. In 2013, Solidarity Uganda began training and

Businessman Amos Nzeyi is back into the limelight after being summoned by the land probe over the Temangalo land saga. An Indian family based in Canada has made fresh claims of ownership of a

Professor Barnabus Nawangwe, the vice Chancellor of Makerere University has ordered all those in illegal occupation of land belonging to the oldest public university in Uganda to leave by the end of this year.

Ruling party, National Resistance Movement (NRM) vice chairman, Al Hajji Moses Kigongo, and other two city businessmen have been dragged into a city land wrangle involving an 80-year-old man. Wycliffe Kato, 80, a retired

GULU, Uganda – For nearly two decades, the Lord’s Resistance Army stalked the grasslands of north Uganda, abducting children as soldiers and sex slaves in its war against the government. Now at peace, the

Minister Onek appears before the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO BY EPHRAIM KASOZI  KAMPALA- The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters has asked Refugees minister Hilary Onek and ex-Tooro Kingdom

KAMPALA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – China’s Sichuan province is in talks to invest $300 million in cotton, rice and fruit production in Uganda, a senior Ugandan official said on Wednesday. Most farming in Africa’s

Oxfam’s Patience Akumu (left) addresses the media with Action Aid’s Fredrick Kawooya (centre) and PELUM’s Josephine Akia Luyimbazi at Uganda Land Alliance offices in Ntinda. Photo by Juliet Kasirye Land rights activists have asked

Protest. Some of the residents of Apaa Village in Mungula Parish, Itirikwa Sub-county, Adjumani District pitch camp at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Gulu Municipality on Monday. ACTIONAID PHOTO

On duty. Justice Catherine Bamugemereire and other members of the land probe commission inspect a wetland in Luzira, Kampala, on June 13. PHOTO BY EPHRAIM KASOZI  Authorities at the ongoing Commission of Inquiry into

Construction. Houses that have been put up at the Kyabazinga coronation site at Mpumudde Hill. PHOTO BY DENIS EDEMA Mpumudde Hill, a cultural and historical site widely regarded with reverence by elders and cultural

Arrested. The UETCL Principal Environment Officer, Mr John Othieno (centre), appears before the land probe in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO by EPHRAIM KASOZI  KAMPALA: The Commission of Inquiry into land matters has blocked payment of

RUKUNGIRI. Residents of Kikarara Parish in Bwambara Sub-county have asked government to reverse a plan to evict them from a piece of land, which is claimed to be part of Queen Elizabeth National Park in

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

Residents of Nkuusi Village, Busamuza Sub County in Buikwe District meeting VODP officials to sort out their compensation woes recently. PHOTO BY DENNIS SSEBWAMI.  BUVUMA. The controversy surrounding compensation of residents who were displaced

Former State minister for Economic Monitoring Henry Banyenzaki. Kampala- Former State minister for Economic Monitoring Henry Banyenzaki and businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba have been named among individuals and companies owning land titles in a central forest

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

Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust general manager Nelson Basaalidde (centre) demonstrates how oil palm is cultivated at the BIDCO factories in Kalangala. Net photo Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda government began handing over

LUWEERO- Dozens of people that live in fear of being evicted from a 125-acre piece of land that was sold to government by Mr Pius Bigirimana, the Ministry of Gender Permanent Secretary, have camped at

Interrogated. The acting director of geology in the Energy ministry, Mr Zachary Baguma (right), with his lawyer Geoffrey Ojok before the land probe commission yesterday. PHOTO BY BY EPHRAIM KASOZI  Kampala. A senior government official

Major Moses Musinguzi attached to Special Forces command has been reportedly cited in a land wrangle with a Congolese investor identified as Mumbere Mutamaini in Namanve industrial park. According to documents we set our

Probe. Justice Catherine Bamugemereire (left), the head of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters, and other members of the commission, listen to an official from the Nakaseke District land office at a public

Not so long ago, residents in Buikwe District cried foul, accusing junior Water Minister Ronald Kibuule of forcefully evicting home owners on 85 acres of land located in Golomola Village. The land is believed

Entebbe Municipal Council town clerk, Charles Magumba The Commission of Inquiry into land matters detained the Entebbe Municipal Council town clerk, Charles Magumba over Isimba hydropower dam double compensation claims. Magumba is one of

A survey involving 465 respondents interviewed on land cases across 12 districts in the Karamoja, Northern, Eastern and Central regions has revealed that districts of Mubende, Amuru and Katakwi have the biggest number of

In a public hearing conducted at the Archives and Records Centre in Nakasero, the commission was stunned by the incredible story of how a 24-year old was paid excess of over sh1b. The land

ENTEBBE- Civil servants, who were evicted from the Old Entebbe staff quarters, have accused the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of mistreatment. Last week, Aviation Police forcibly evicted more than 600 sitting tenants from the prime

KAMPALA. The Inspector General of Government (IGG) has warned Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) against giving away Kiswa Children’s Recreation Centre at Kataza in Bugolobi to a developer. The contentious park, which measures 0.245 hectares,

AMURU- The future of more than 5,000 pupils in Amuru District hangs in the balance as the UPDF and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) continue effecting evictions on the contested Apaa land. The pupils, whose education

GULU: More than 250 residents occupying part of Gulu Central Forest Reserve in Laroo Division, Gulu Municipality, face eviction after National Forestry Authority (NFA) announced plans of reclaiming the land. NFA recently issued an eviction

By witnessradio.org Team Since 2017, 23000 families have experienced eviction violence from state security institutions including Uganda police to pave way for agribusiness. Agilis Partners Limited a subsidiary of Joseph Initiatives is targeting over

UGANDA: The Justice Catherine Bamugemereire ongoing judicial inquiry into land matters has as expected generated multi-dimensional controversies with some people, especially those in the financial sector, lawyers in private practice, and some beneficiaries accusing

The aim of the study was for the Government to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying issues behind land disputes and the related human rights implications. PIC: Meddie Kaggwa (third-right) the chairman of

DAKAR (Reuters) – In 2014, Democratic Republic of Congo officials trumpeted the launch of a sweeping initiative they said would solve food shortages in one of the world’s poorest countries. The plan: to transform

Aruu County MP Odonga Otto has kick-started a process to censure the Minister of Lands, Ms Betty Amongi, over her involvement in the fraudulent disposal of properties under the management of the Departed Asians

By witnessradio.org Team At the age of ten (10), Kyesimire Sharon while in primary three (3), her father Paul Kasigire was kidnapped from their home at night, held incommunicado before being taken to prison

Lands minister Betty Amongi has today appeared before the Commission of Inquiry into land matters for the second time to answer questions regarding Asian property dispute and management of the land fund. Ms Amongi

Government has cancelled land titles which had been issued to Pastor Samuel Kakande for the 26 square miles of land he acquired in Mubende District. Pastor Kakande, who heads the Kampala based Synagogue Church

Jinja. On the morning of March 20, Mr Peter Kalibbala was in Lugazi Municipality on his way to Kampala when he received a call. “John is being evicted,” the caller told him. “There must be

The executive director of the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) James Saaka has come under the spotlight before the Land Probe Commission over the Shs 402 million he received from the Land Fund.

AMURU/ADJUMANI- Ms Margaret Aculu, 35, emerges with her baby from a makeshift structure looking frightened as she welcomes me to what she calls home in Luru B Village, Apaa Parish. The disputed piece of land

The ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Planning has started a new digital land demarcation system to be used by surveyors. Mr John Lutaaya, the acting principal staff surveyor, said the government adopted the

Byenkya: Please, state your name in full? Kamukama: My name is Nawe Molly Kamukama Byenkya: How old are you? Kamukama: 45 Byenkya: What do you do for a living? Kamukama: I work as a

Amuru- Seven months after government handed over the contentious 40 square kilometres Apaa land to Adjumani District local government, President Museveni has defended the move. Speaking as chief guest at a fundraising drive organised by

By witnessradio.org Team Multiple claims to the same plot of land: Mubende High Court has issued an order allowing a newly emerged landlord, Kaweesi George of Block 168, plots 22 and 23 to open

Canberra — China’s investment in foreign agriculture totaled $26 billion in 2016, with investments in 100 countries. But this may just be the tip of the iceberg. A new report released by the United States Department of

Last week, former minister Maj Gen Jim Muhwezi, unsuccessfully tried to stop court bailiffs from enforcing an eviction order given by Makindye magistrate Richard Mafabi. This was the climax of a 26-year battle for

By Rashmi Menon Lord Andrew Hay, global head of residential division, Knight Frank For a man with information on prime properties across the globe, Lord Andrew Hay can separate the wheat from the chaff.

By Carin Smaller, David Laborde A trade war is looming between the United States and China. President Donald Trump has proposed tariffs on over 1,000 Chinese imports. China has responded, saying it would impose

By witnessradio.org Team Land, apart from being our source of livelihood, it provides an address and a polling station where one can exercise his/her constitutional duties to decide how to be governed through voting

President Museveni has extended the term of the Commission of Inquiry into land matters by at least 18 months following the expiry of its term on May 9, 2018. In December 2016, Museveni appointed

Accused of conflict of interest, Betty Amongi, the minister for Lands was nudged yesterday by a rather angry Justice Catherine Bamugemereire to resign. Appearing before the Justice Bamugemereire-led Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters;

Directors of Kayokamu Engineering Company ltd, a general construction and service contracting enterprise, have asked for a hearing before the land commission of inquiry accusing a senior ruling party historical, Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza,

Tension is high at Bedmot village, Mutunda Sub-county in Kiryandongo District after tribal clashes erupted between the Acholi and Paluo communities over a disputed land. Four people were severely injured and more than 10

When Julius Peter was finally freed after seven years held hostage by Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, he and his family hoped their lives would finally return to normal. Instead, it was the start

Former Health minister Jim Muhwezi was yesterday violently evicted from land in Makindye Division by court bailiffs as police ignored his pleas for help.  Maj Gen Muhwezi claimed ownership of the one-acre land in

It was a somber mood in the commission of inquiry into land matters when Albert Mugumya, the under-secretary Uganda Lands Commission (ULC) revealed the origin of the bad blood between the Cabinet Minister of

Once upon a time, there was a public body which went by the name, the Buganda Land Board. This body was set up under Chapter X11 of the 1962 Constitution to manage public land

The State Minister for Finance has said a sub-committee on land is sitting tomorrow to decide the fate of 153 investors who acquired plots in Namanve Industrial Park but failed to develop it. Ms

Betty Amongin, the Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development has been pinned before the commission of inquiry into land matters for using her office to grab land and property worth billions of shillings

By witnessradio.org Team A prisoner in Kyabisenge prison, Kakumiro district has been tortured and abandoned to rot with bullet wounds. Kakumiro district is found in Mid-Western region of Uganda. Aloysius Wasswa, 22,a resident of

 A recommendation for the abolition of District Land Boards is a bad move, Sylvia Namukasa Mubiru, the Executive Director of Legal Aid Service Providers Network (LASPNET) has stated. Her comments are in reference to

By witnessradio.org Team Less than two decades, former Kaweeri Coffee Planation limited evictees who were settled on Block 168, plots 22 and 23 Kanseera word, East Division, Mubende district are being evicted again by

By witnessradio.org Team Over 15000 families are facing eviction threats in Kanseera Ward, East Division, Mubende Municipality, Mubende District after over seven (7) businessmen publicly announced ownership of 1812.99 hectares that has been occupied

By witnessradio.org Team (Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil,

By witnessradio.org Team A sitting judge at Mubende High Court Justice Joseph Mulangira has declined to hear a bail application for seven community leaders who resisted illegal land eviction by Formosa limited, got kidnapped

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 Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land undermining United Nation’s

By witnessradio.org Team Hundreds of natives under Nyamalebe Landless Association who were settled by the government on government former ranches in Kiryandongo district have petitioned Land Inquiry Commission accusing police and office of the

Author(s): AGNES KALIBATA As the world’s population surges towards nine billion by midcentury, food production has failed to keep pace, creating rising food shortages and a global food crisis ahead, according to the United

By witnessradio.org Team Mubende residents are envisaging some light at the tunnel as six senior public servants loss their jobs barely three weeks after witnessradio.org ’s report that pinned state agencies for aiding violent

  Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, has suspended four Mubende District police commanders after they were pinned by Butorogo sub-county residents for conniving with land grabbers on Friday. Gen Kayihura suspended four

By witnessradio.org Team Barely two weeks after witnessradio.org exposed systematic land grabbing and violent land evictions in Mubende district, two land titles that were fraudulently awarded to two companies namely M/s. Merchandised Agro-Processors limited

By witnessradio.org team As witnessradio.org continues to unearth different methods of  land evictions being used to grab communities’ land. Mubende district leadership  has for more than a decade denied natives access to justice and

By witnessradio.org Team Respect for rule of law is at stake in Mubende as court orders are not powerful enough to stop land evictions, witnessradio.org can reveal. Mubende is one of the districts in

By witnessradio.org team Moses Karangwa, the NRM chairperson and his embattled Lubaga counterpart Abdallah Kitatta used colossal sums of money from the ruling party coffers to finance land grabs in the Central region, a

By witnessradio.org Team Witnessradio.org a non- governmental organization wants Mubende district land board disbanded and immediate investigations into those responsible for the displacement of native communities. The organization says the board is responsible for

By witnessradio.org team In July last year, witnessradio.org petitioned the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire’s Land Inquiry Commission asking for an urgent investigations into what it called a ‘widespread violent land evictions in Mubende characterized with

By witnessradio.org team In support of witnessradio.org report; HURIPEC’s latest report states that the rampant and often illegal evictions have affected indigenous land owners in the Uganda for the last couple of decades and

By witnessradio.org team Faking of land titles, invading public and idle land, colluding with public officials, faking court orders, selling one piece of land to several buyers, are the key tricks land grabbers use

By witnessradio.org Team witnessradio.org‘s latest findings indicate that land titles in Mubende being used by businessmen to evict local communities off their land target more than the district’s land size. According to witnessradio.org report

By witnessradio.org More than 190,000 families were violently evicted from their land in 2017, pushing the broken families into starvation, a new report by witnessradio.org states. According to the report, the grabbed land was

More than a year of combing villages in Mubende, finally we get to the bottom of land grabbing. Witnessradio.org unveiled it’s report on Land Grabbing in Mubende. Read the full report here..

By witnessradio.org team “Unless the governance crisis is resolved, very little can be done to change the conditions of land injustice in Uganda, Says a new report released by the Human Rights and Peace

More Ugandans continue to languish in poverty putting government on the spot in regards to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by world leaders two years. The first ever assessment carried

By Witnessradio.org Team As health workers continue their industrial action in Uganda, protesting poor working condition and limited supplies for patients, leaders in Mubende district have sold off hospital land in exchange for maize

By witnessradio.org team Imagine waking up in the morning to be told that your food gardens have been slashed down by the ‘new’ landlord and you no-longer have rights on that land to which

By witnessradio.org Team As the world is getting troubled by the rising population and youth unemployment especially in Africa, Hewlett Foundation visits a small sub-county in Uganda to learn about village Budget Club model

Witnessradio.org team Charles Lwanga Masengere, 51, is counting 17 years of fighting for his land and lost properties worth billions of shillings but the journey is still far From over with no sign yet

By witnessradio.org Team In an effort to mitigate a rapidly growing population rate at 3.3 per annum in Uganda, Mityana district launches the first ever Five Year Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan to address

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan government plan to change its constitution so it can forcefully acquire private land for public projects has ignited widespread anger, with critics saying powerful officials and individuals would use

By witnessradio.org team In an attempt to frustrate efforts to recover communities’ land in Mubende district, a businessman Wilfred Bugingo has sued witnessradio.org for defamation. During the last couple of months,witnessradio.org has been exposing

By witnessradio.org team From tormenting and violently evicting several dozens of families off their land, businessman Wilfred Bugingo, is now targeting and threatening witnessradio.org to withdraw a memoranda that reported him plus other rich

By Witnessradio.org Tens of thousands of poor families in Mubende district, have over the years lost numerous hectares of land to either companies or powerful individuals who carry out forceful evictions, witnessradio.org has reported

By witnessradio.org team It was a normal morning as always when Resty Nabakooza (50) woke up to trek to her maize-garden for the routine tilling of the land, which is the source of her

By Witnessradio.org team As demand for land increases across the country, land for military installations has not been spared. President Museveni has been named again in a nationwide giveaway land bonanza, his latest giveaway

By Witnessradio.org Team As sizes of prime public land in Uganda’s capital Kampala decrease in giveaways, President Museveni is increasingly targeting strategic rural land for his ‘investors’. Museveni’s latest target is Mubende National Teachers’

By witnessradio.org team As almost all African Countries’ leaders are involved in secretive deals with foreign mining companies due to pervasive corruption that allows only corrupt elites to profit at the expense of ordinary

The proposed constitutional amendment bill which seeks to amend article 26 of the constitution to enable government compulsorily acquire land is still facing stiff opposition from all corners. AFIEGO, a public policy research and

By witnessradio.org team As tens of thousands of poor people in Mubende District face being pushed off their land, the land grabbers have intensified their violent method involving both damaging and murdering of bona

By witnessradio.org team For years now, she has hired high-ranking officers in the Uganda People Defence Forces (UPDF) to work as machineries to traumatize and forcefully evict thousands of poor households from 16 villages.

By witnessradio.org team It’s more than a month since Government through Mwesigwa Rukutana, the Deputy Attorney General tabled a Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2017 in parliament on July 2017 in which it sought to amend

By Witnessradio.org Team Close to a decade now, thousands of families that have been facing gross human rights abuses to surrender their land to an investor without compensation are currently being targeted. Mubende police

A community of six villages; Nakasozi, Butoro, Kicucuro, Namayindi, Lwamagwa and Kyedikyo, located in Madudu and Butorogo Sub-counties in Mubende district remains in a state of limbo over a month after the gruesome murder

By Wilson Manishimwe Mubende District Police Commander, Patrick Byaruhanga promised to arrest and charge Tumwine’s murderers. Chinese national Martins Chang wants government protection against encroachers whom he accuses of encroaching on his 2,500 acre

The proposed constitutional land amendment bill, 2017 by Government falls short of the international standards, an independent study by witnessradio.org says. The study that involved similar policies in other jurisdictions such as Ghana, South

On 13 July, 2017, Government of Uganda through Mwesigwa Rukutana, the deputy attorney general, tabled a Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2017 in parliament which intends to amend article 26 of the Constitution to allow State

By Witnessradio.org Team Formasa limited, a Chinese owned Company dealing in tree planting business was in 2010 introduced to 1000 native families from over twelve (12) villages in both Maddudu and Butoloogo sub counties

By Witnessradio.org Team As the entire world praises Uganda for having the best refugee settlement model, in the process a lot of violations and forceful land acquisition goes on unreported. Over 35000 indigenous families

By Witnessradio.org Team Respect for global business and human rights standards? Three mining companies have been named in 12 square miles land grabbing scandal that host gold deposits in Mubende district. Mubende district is

By witnessradio.org team While two political leaders in Mubende district have made an intervention, the protracted conflict between residents and Milly Namutebi, a woman claims to be the land owner still rages. Benny Namugwanya,

By Witnessradio.org Team Is it an epicenter of land grabbing in Uganda? In the near future, rural poor communities will find it hard to live in Mubende district as rich men and companies are

By Witnessradio.org team Kampala, 14thJune 2017, two organisations advocating for land rights have petitioned the Land Inquiry Commission over land grabbing and human rights abuses committed during land evictions in Mubende district. The Witnessradio.org

By Witnessradio.org As Uganda GDP drops to 3.5 from 5%, the latest research is revealing that 73 per cent of Uganda’s total population that depend on agriculture are losing their access to land due

By witnessradio.org team Muwereza Mugabi owns a kibanja (plot) on the bigger tract of land comprising 2-square miles situated on Block 168 plot 19, 22, 23 covering two villages; Kawula and Kambuye, Kansera ward,

Ann Nazziwa, 96, has been a resident of Kasenyi Caltex West Division, Mubende Municipal Council in Mubende district for the last 50 years. She is a widow death lobbed her God-given 5 children. Frankly

Agaba has no sense of a future beyond the mercury-laced waters of the gold mining pit he calls home in Mubende, central Uganda. Last year, after his mother died, the 15-year-old fled his home

By witnessradio.org team Imagine investing all your energies and scarce resources at your disposal in developing the piece of land through planting gardens of food crops for months and get destroyed in less than

Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) launched a new report looking at 80 legal frameworks regulating indigenous and rural women’s community forest rights in 30 countries comprising 78% of the developing world’s forests. The report

WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Global technology giants such as Google and Facebook must join the battle for land rights and help spearhead an international campaign to eradicate insecurity of tenure as if it

By witnessradio.org Have you ever imagined a situation where a would-be defender siding with your tormentor to finish you off? Well that is what Idah Nantaba, the former State Minster in charge of lands,

Ida Nantaba, is a former State Minister in charge of Lands now holding the portfolio of Minister of State for ICT and National Guidance. On May 25, Nantaba appeared before the commission of inquiry

The investigations into Land management in Uganda are on-going by the judicial Commission of inquiry chaired by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire. Among the witnesses that have appeared before a seven-member commission so far, is Yusuf

By witnessradio.org team A revelation by officials of Buganda Land Board (BLB), a professional body that Buganda King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II to manage land and properties returned under the restitution of Assets and

By witnessradio.org Team Imagine losing your lovely husband, your children and you remain alone with no supporting hand.  The next you hear is, you’re losing your source of livelihood to moneyed and politically powerful

As the Commission of Inquiry kicks off its investigations into land management in Uganda, witnessradio.org puts together necessary information about it from its mandate, composition, profiles of individuals on the said commission to the

By Witnessradio.org team Indigenous communities that lost land to a Chinese Formasa Tree -planting Company since 2014, are starving with hundreds of children getting malnourished. Early this year, witnessradio.org discovered that Formasa Company used

Background and objectives of this report Strong demand for land continues to be a major challenge that highlights the interconnectedness of the global South and the global North: investors from all over the world

At least 7out of 500 tenants who are on the verge of facing a forceful eviction in Lwamagembe village, Kiganda Sub-County in Mubende district, lost their houses to arsonists after a land dispute between

At least 200 residents of 10 villages in Kagoma parish, Kitenga Sub-County Mubende district have stormed the district headquarters demanding the intervention of its leadership led by Francis Kibuuka Amoti into their looming eviction