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,

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 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

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

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 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

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

Napak- President Yoweri Museveni has warned  land grabbers who use his name and office to snatch land in Karamoja. Mr Museveni says he has no interest in Karamoja land. The president was speaking to

By witnessradio.org Team Tough times are ahead for native land owners in Uganda. This is the case because land grabbers are changing tactics from forceful eviction with the aide of state machinery  to conspiracy

KAMPALA. President Museveni has ordered the National Forestry Authority (NFA) to find at least four acres of land at its headquarters in Bugolobi for giveaway to an investor, Daily Monitor has learnt. Sources told Daily

By witnessradio.org Team Over 600 families in Kayunga district are facing eviction by gun wielding men yet to be identified. The affected families sit on public land in Gariraaya, Bbaale Kitimbwa and Kayonza sub counties. This was

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,

Businessman Medard Kiconco wanted the court to issue an interim order against the Lusanja residents, stopping them from reconstructing houses on the disputed land. The High Court has declined to halt the ongoing reconstruction of

Electoral Commission spokesperson, Mr Jotham Taremwa. He denied owning a piece of land at Nshaara government ranch, adding that the suit is malicious and only intended to scandalise him.  By Anthony Wesaka Kampala. Uganda People’s

By witnessradio.org Team More than 30 local council one (1) chairpersons, land rights defenders and native land owners are languishing in different prisons in both Mubende and Kassanda districts over defending their land rights,

Kampala-Mubende, 19th/01/2019; witnessradio.org, a civil society organisation advocating for natives’ land rights has petitioned the office of the Inspector General of Police and Police’s Professional Standards Unit, calling for independent investigations into the role

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

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.

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,

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

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 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

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

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

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,

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

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