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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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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...
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...
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...
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...