By witnessradio.org Team The Land Inquiry Commission is to visit Kiryandongo district to undertake an in-depth investigation into the illegal eviction of over 5000 natives from...
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...
By witnessradio.org Team 15 outspoken natives who have been mobilising fellow peers to resist violent evictions targeting their land are facing persecution from Kiryandongo district security...
By witnessradio.org Team Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over...
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 witnessradio.org Team A mother of 8 children whose husband was kidnapped by agents of tree planting company is struggling to feed her children and raise...
Francis Longoli, a small farmer from Kiboga district of central Uganda, is tearful: “I remember my land, three acres of coffee, many trees – mangoes and...