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Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
- Blended Finance Project
- 26 May 2022
Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
Museveni promises to pay evictees of Kiryandongo sugar factory land
- Monitor
- 16 May 2022
President Museveni has promised to compensate residents who were evicted after he donated lands in 2017 to Kiryandongo Sugar Factory, Agilis Partners of the US, and Great Season to pave way for large-scale farming.
Uganda: 35,000 evicted residents in Kiryandongo district face starvation
- The Independent
- 27 April 2022
More than 35,000 people who were evicted from their land by multinational agribusiness companies in Kiryandongo district are on the verge of starvation.
Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda
- Witness Radio
- 19 April 2022
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
A land grab case against Agilis Ranch 20 and 21 Limited kicks off next week
- Witness Radio
- 15 April 2022
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.
Over 350,000 acres of land were grabbed during Witness Radio – Uganda’s seven months ban
- Witness Radio
- 23 Mar 2022
Government finally lifts suspension of NGO working with land grab affected communities, but over 300,000 people were evicted and couldn’t access specialized and prompt legal assistance during the period of suspension.
Masindi high court finally fixes court dates for Kiryandongo land grab victims
- Ugandan Land Defenders
- 17 Mar 2022
A Ugandan court has finally fixed different hearing dates for cases filed by victim communities in Kiryandongo who were forced off their land by multinational agribusiness companies.
Uganda: 30,000 evicted locals cry to govt for compensation
- Monitor
- 25 February 2022
More than 30,000 residents, who were evicted from their land in Kiryandongo District by multinational companies, have cried out to the government to expedite the process of their compensation and resettlement
Unmasking Sarai Group, vicious wolves In sheep skin
- Soko Directory
- 14 February 2022
Should Kenyans allow people to run Mumias Sugar who are accused of mass eviction by their sugarcane plantation companies in neighbouring Uganda?
Contextualizing customary land registration in Uganda
- 21 January 2022
Land is spiritual, land is ideological, and we cannot afford to give it away for the economic benefits of the investor, argues Professor Sam Lwanga Lunyiigo
Uganda: Militarized corporate agriculture companies are resorting to reprisals to grab land
- Ugandan Land Defenders
- 29 October 2021
Kiryandongo Sugar Company is using soldiers to carry out retaliatory attacks against community land rights defenders and activists in Kiryandongo district.
Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders
- Mongabay
- 28 October 2021
The recent arrests of staff of a Ugandan civil society organization, the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), have been criticized as an attempt to stifle defenders of human rights and the environment in the country. AFIEGO is one of several organizations involved in defending the Bugoma Forest, which Hoima Sugar Ltd. is seeking to clear large portions of it for a sugarcane plantation.