By witnessradio.org Team Kassanda – Uganda; after a decade of anguish, a community of over 10,000 people that forcefully lost their livelihood to a British...
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...
KICUCULA, Uganda — According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful” and...
Over 20,000 people were forced from their homes the central districts of Mubende and Kiboga to pave way for a tree planting project by a British...
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...
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...
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...