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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.org Team Four people have been injured and property worth millions of shillings destroyed in a fresh attack on residents in Bukoba, Nalutuntu in Kassanda district. The attack on residents happened on land

By witnessradio.org Gertrude Njuba, is a State House official charged with solving land wrangles but instead it’s seems she is now part of this problem that has engulfed the country. One of the assignments,

By TOM MALABA Kampala- Established sugar companies have been cited as being behind the illegal titling of land in Bajjo and Wamale forest reserves in Bbale Sub-county in Kayunga District. While appearing before the Justice

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

By witnessradio.org Team 10 land rights defenders and local council leaders have been arrested and interrogated by Mityana district police for blocking a “landlord” from fencing off their homes and gardens without adhering to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Extracted from treehugger , September 23, 2011 Nzabakulisiza Sirasi, 32, is one of over 20,000 people to have been evicted from their homes in Mubende District, Uganda, since the government licensed land to the

Extracted from the Independent , January, 2012. As people celebrate Christmas, it is a luxury that others can even hardly afford to think about and have spent their last 10 Christmas like that—sad, poor

By witnessradio.org Team On March 14th, 2018, the Land Inquiry Commission opened investigations into violent land eviction of indigenous communities from former government ranches in Kiryandongo district and directed immediate halt of evictions until

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

By Ronald Kule & Bikeke Saimon The Commission of Inquiry into land matters that concluded its public hearing in Kasese on 1st March 2018 has taken interest in investigating how government land under Kilembe mines limited

London-based New Forests Company (NFC) would seem to be the design blueprint of how a young modern company should conduct a major land investment in Africa in a responsible way. Oxfam’s investigations reveal, however,

By witnessradio.org Team Kaberuka Fenehansi, 67, a resident of Nakasozi local council 1, Maduddu sub county was kidnapped from his home at 4:00am by unidentified men in plain clothes and whisked away in a

By witnessradio.org Team Sserugo Sam, 28, is among the seven breadwinners silently facing malicious prosecution and victimization for speaking against the illegal acquisition of their land by Formasa Tree Planting Company. Sserugo, a resident

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 German coffee firm on a 99-year lease. The

By witnessradio.org Team Smallholder farmers in Madudu Sub-County Mubende district are silently losing land ownership and livelihood to Formasa Tree Planting, a Chinese Company according to witnessradio.org investigations. Smallholder farmers are lawful occupants of

The land is covering 10 villages including Butoro, Kyedikyo, Nakasozi, Namayindi, Kitebe, Kisiigwa, Mukiguluka,Busaabala and Kicucuulo located both in Maduddu and Butoloogo sub-counties, Mubende district. After winning support from the local leadership and security

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

Progress achieved in addressing the situation of the 4000 evictees in Mubende will again be under review, at the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural and Social Rights. For the first time compliance with

July 22, 2009 Written by joomlasupport Mubende-based Kaweri Coffee Plantation Ltd. is embroiled in controversy after its parent company, the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) of Hamburg, Germany, was accused of unlawfully evicting peasants from their

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural and Social Rights (CESCR) calls on the State of Uganda to take immediate measures to ensure that the rights of those forcibly evicted from Mubende District

Despite more than a decade of mobilization and legal struggle, Mubende evictees have not yet seen justice and continue to suffer the collateral consequences of this brutal act. Today, 15 years ago, the Uganda

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 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 To an outsider or a less interested person in what’s going on in Mubende might think targeting and incarcerating community leaders opposed to illegal land evictions is a new method. This

              By witnessradio.org Mubende district being of the oldest district established in 1905, it hadn’t experience until the 20th century when the demand for land at global level

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 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

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

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 “It’s no-longer normal, everything has changed because of the army and police which took our good big house with my good clothes and shoes. We have been going to a good

By witnessradio.org team Imagine being assigned by your president to protect the indigenous people’s land and instead target their mineral-rich land; through your office, you hoodwink them to vacate their land before compensation. It’s

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 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 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’