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

The State Minister for Environment Beatrice Atim Anywar has claimed that mafias are conniving with some big figures in National Agriculture Advisory Services (NAADS) to destroy forests in Kayunga district. While delivering her analysis

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Farmers across the world must connect agriculture with the protection of biodiversity and the environment to have a sustainable food supply system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the

Nursery bed operators who have been supplying coffee seedlings to government in Masaka, Lwengo, Kyotera and Rakai districts are stuck with them after the distribution was halted in March following the Covid-19 pandemic. The

A Turkish company ASB Group which signed an agreement with the government to establish a $300 million special economic zone for beef production in Nakaseke district has lost interest in the project.ASB Group of

Farmers in Chegere Sub-county, Apac District, have rejected cassava planting stems supplied by government under Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), saying they were not consulted on what they needed to plant. A total of 816

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  

By BENJAMIN SSEMWANGA Residents of Sankala zone in Lukuli Makindye Municipality face eviction after NEMA wrote to them demanding that they leave the place because they encroached on a wetland. Led by their LC

Reduction in cassava production due to cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) threatens food security.  As Uganda takes steps to make cassava an eco-friendly feedstock for ethanol production, agricultural experts

Charcoal is an integral part of everyday life in Uganda, where most people rely on some form of wood fuel to cook or boil water. For many, the sale of trees also provides a

 Bugoma reserve is being deforested to pave way for sugarcane. Photograph: Handout/The Guardian Conservationists say clearance of Bugamo reserve for plantation is blow to biodiversity and country’s reputation on wildlife. Conservationists have branded a

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

  #UGBUDGET20 ✳ Sh45.5 trillion ✳ Cuts on travel, conferences ✳ Security Sh4.5 trillion ✳ Works Sh5.8 trillion ✳ Govt to borrow Sh11trillion ✅ 2020 – Sh45 trillion ✅ 2019 – Sh40 trillion ✅

A farmer uprooting weeds from his maize field in Kasese district. The COVID-19 lockdown has prevented farmers from accessing farm inputs. (File photo) AGRICULTURE Food production is often a combination of different factors, ranging

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifteen employees of Atiak sugar factory in Amuru district are seeking legal redress after their contracts were terminated. Last month, the staff were told to stop working and later

“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

The Egyptian Government has given Uganda 1.5 million dollars to clear the floating islands on Lake Victoria. The increasing water levels on the lakes have detached large chunks of land and vegetation from the

Mike Lumu (right), an agricultural officer in Kibaale district, inspecting maize plantations. Photo by Ismael Kasooha As other parts of the country battle with floods and rivers bursting their banks, farmers in the districts

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

©IFAD/Francesco Cabras Rome, 20 April 2020 – With the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown threatening the lives and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today committed

By WILSON KUTAMBA & AL-MAHDI SSENKABIRWA A section of livestock farmers in Rakai, Lyantonde, Sembabule, Kyotera and Kiruhura districts have accused government of selectively carrying out mass vaccination of cattle against the foot-and-mouth disease

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,

Kitgum, Uganda |    The government through Operation Wealth Creation and National Agricultural Advisory Services is to start distribution of emergency seed support to more than 3,000 households in the eight districts of Acholi. This is

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

In order to widen their market bases and also ease selling of their products especially in such a time of Covid-19, small scale farmers’ organisations from Uganda and Kenya have formed an online Agricultural

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

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

MP Andrew Musasizi Parliament has widened tax exemptions to mechanized agricultural inputs, in a bid MPs said will give the sector the much needed post Covid-19 boost. The Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Finance,

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

Speaking to New Vision, Ssempija revealed that the animals were blinded after being affected by East Coast Fever (ECF) which is caused by ticks. AGRICULTURE  CATTLE Following reports that over 300 cows had gone blind

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

Exotic baron breed bred by scientists at Aswa Ranch for the last seven years weighing 900kg. Photo by Lominda Afedraru By Lominda Afedraru Dairy and beef cattle production is certainly a daunting undertaking, especially

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 More than 100 civil society organizations have petitioned the President of the African Development Bank, Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, warning against financing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.   The proposed 1,445-kilometer pipeline

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

All court hearings and appearances have been suspended for 32 days according to a circular issued by the chief justice Bart Katureebe. Katureebe says the suspension is in line with the directives issued by

Dairy Farmers in Mbarara and Kiruhura districts are stuck with over 150,000 litres of milk following the closure of the biggest milk processing plants in the area. Pearl Dairies stopped buying milk six days

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

Preservation. Workers offload milk for chilling at a cooler owned by Nyamitsindo Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society Ltd in Mbarara District in February last year. PHOTO BY ALFRED TUMUSHABE  Majority of the cattle keepers in

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

Efforts. One of the blind cows at a farm in Isingiro District. PHOTO BY FELIX AINEBYOONA  By FELIX AINEBYOONA Government is investigating reports that dairy farmers in Isingiro District are using unlicensed acaricides and

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

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

Farmers in a Pineapple Plantation in Kyanamukaaka sub county in Masaka district where the market has shrunk as exporters stay away Masaka, Uganda | Pineapple farmers in Masaka district are stuck with their farm produces as

By EVE MUGANGA The Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries’ (MAAIF) department of crop inspection and certification has impounded fake inputs worthy Shs30 million in their operations conducted for one week within the

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

Workers carry pesticides from a truck onto a waiting army helicopter that airlifted them to Karamoja sub-region. Desert locusts that invaded Uganda through Amudat District via North West Pokot in Kenya on Sunday, have

The government has confirmed an outbreak of new and more deadly banana disease in western Uganda. The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), says the fast-spreading disease is drying up banana plants

The locusts have devastated food supplies in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) describing the situation as the worst in 25 years. A locust infestation sweeping the Horn of

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.   

Experts have warned farmers not to rush into planting anything, explaining that the current rains are just seasonal and occasionally occur during dry spells. “These rains will not last for long. Farmers should hold

Eng. John Twinomujuni explaining to the Kyegegwa district how the irrigation scheme works.Photo by Adolf Ayoreka KYEGEGWA – The Government, through the water and environment ministry under the department of water for production, has handed

BERLIN, Germany, February 5, 2020/ — The worst locust infestation in decades is currently destroying crops and pastureland in the Horn of Africa. There is a risk of famine in the region. Germany has made

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

The price of pineapples in Luweero district has dropped from Shs 2,000 to Shs 700 per piece following a bumper harvest. The price reduction is attributed to increased production as a result of two

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

Minister of Water and Environment Sam Cheptoris addressing the media during press conference at Uganda Media Centre on January 29, 2020.Photo by Ramadhan Abbey Land titles that were obtained after 1995 have been cancelled

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

A solar hydro hybrid plant. Uganda has shelved its plan to construct a solar hydro hybrid plant. courtesy photo  Uganda will have to wait a while longer before it can see its first solar

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

Kampala, Uganda |  The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has opened the UNBS national food safety laboratory building whose construction started in 2010 when the body acquired land to build its headquarters in

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

China hosted African agricultural leaders for a forum this week where Chinese officials pledged to expand and deepen cooperation, investment, and trade with African agriculture over the next 3 years. According to China’s Ministry

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.

Despite a steady increase in coffee consumption around the world, trade prices have fallen dramatically in the past three years. Futures on arabica and robusta, the most widespread varieties of coffee, have fallen 40

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

Kampala, Uganda |  Farmers in areas neighboring Agoro river are struggling to access water following a change in the design of channels flowing atop of Langiya hills in Agoro sub-county, Lamwo district. Stretching several

Kampala, Uganda | A World Bank country report on agriculture in Uganda has concluded that greater focus on the Northern and Eastern Regions will be needed for Uganda to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.

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

Weakened. Artisanal miners sieve mineral contents in a gold mine. Speculators, according to the Chamber of Mines and Petroleum chairman have weakened the prospects of attracting foreign direct investment. FILE PHOTO Speculators holding mineral

Redudant rice milling machines at Damaza Grain Millers Limited factory in Jinja District. The company is among those that laid off some workers due to low production capacity. PHOTO by Joanita Mbabazi  Recently, rice

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.

Co-authored by: ADAPPE-Guinée, Bread for All (Switzerland), CDHD (Congo-Brazzaville), COPACO (DRC), Culture Radio (Sierra Leone), GRAIN, Joegbahn Land Protection Organization (Liberia), JVE Côte d’Ivoire, MALOA (Sierra Leone), Muyissi Environnement (Gabon), NRWP (Liberia), RADD (Cameroon), REFEB (Côte d’Ivoire),

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

Chinese agricultural investments in Africa have sparked fierce controversy, excoriated as colonial plunder or hailed as productive and beneficial to local farmers. But the picture here in Luwero, Uganda, 50 miles north of the capital,

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)

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

Livestock farmers in Nakasongola District have suffered another setback following a fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a few days to government’s planned lifting of the cattle quarantine. In 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture

The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Water and Environment, Mr. Alfred Okot Okidi (C) speaks to officials at the event. PHOTO BY RAJAB MUKOMBOZI  BUSHENYI-The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned that Uganda likely

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

Over 60 per cent of the 13 million head of local breed cattle in the country could be extinct by the year 2050, Joy Kabatsi, the minister of state for Agriculture has said. The

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

KAMPALA – Judicial officers want soldiers to be barred from carrying out evictions in the country. They also recommend that the role of police should be limited to observing evictions in addition to keeping law

Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | For the recent decades, Africa’s indigenous animals such as the East Africa’s sinewy Ankole cattle; a product of the centuries of selection for traits adapted to harsh conditions, have

Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | One of Uganda’s favourite crop, coffee, could soon be heavily regulated as the government takes a step to amend the existing law. The proposed law, National Coffee Bill, 2018,

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

A teller counts money in a bank. Bankers have started the conversation about lending more to the agriculture sector. the share of lending to agriculture as a percentage of total private sector credit has

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

BoU governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile The value added by the agricultural sector had shrunk from 49% in 1991 to 24% in 2018, Uganda’s economy could implode unless the government and the private sector carve

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

KALUNGU, Uganda, June 27 (Xinhua) — A large expanse of lush green rice paddies is a major highlight along the highway from Uganda’s capital Kampala to the southern part of the country. The 3,000

By Edward Makobore History, going back to biblical times, is heavily laden with stories demonstrating food as an ultimate game changer. In Genesis, there was the story of Essau selling his birthright to his younger

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