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,...
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...
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...
The British charity Oxfam has released a new report detailing the forced eviction of people from forests in Uganda to make way for a British timber company. The...
By TABU BUTAGIRA KAMPALA A British firm accused by Oxfam International of illegally evicting some 20,000 Ugandan peasants from arable land to plant trees yesterday suspended...
By witnessradio.org Team as extracted from Author’s report… A very different story was told by the New Forest company sent to audit NFC for the FSC...
By witnessradio.org Team, a Third Series The story of neighbouring Mubende just months later echoes the events of the 2008– 2010 Kiboga evictions. In both cases,...
By witnessradio.org Team, as extracted from Oxfam report Oxfam research indicated that around 7,400 people were living on the Namwasa plantation and at least 15,191 people...
witnessradio.org is running the report in series When the New Forests Company (NFC) was formed in 2004 its management’s aim was for it to become East...
By Chrispin Mwakideu and Leylah Ndinda : 26/08/2013 In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by a...