By TABU BUTAGIRA KAMPALA A British firm accused by Oxfam International of illegally evicting some 20,000 Ugandan peasants from arable land to plant trees yesterday suspended...
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 Hundreds of natives under Nyamalebe Landless Association who were settled by the government on government former ranches in Kiryandongo district have petitioned Land...
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...
By witnessradio.org Team Mubende land grabbing is reaching dangerous levels as land belonging to area leaders is not spared too. Hategeka Esau, 30, a resident of...