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Oxfam to Be Ejected From Uganda?

International organisation Oxfam is being accused of inciting violence over land issues after they handed government a report on land grabbing in the country.
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Civil society is currently engaging in campaigns against land grabbing.

  • Uganda:   World Bank Under Attack for Aiding Land Grabs

    Independent (Kampala), 6 May 2012

    The World Bank has come under attack after a new report has exposed how commercial projects funded by the Bank are causing poverty, human rights violations in Uganda sparking a… Read more »

  • Uganda:   New Report Uncovers Land Grab in Kalangala

    Friends of the Earth, 23 April 2012

    Released on the eve of a World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a new report reveals widespread violations of people's rights and environmental destruction from a land grab… Read more »

  • Uganda:   Museveni's Double Standards?

    Independent (Kampala), 6 May 2012

    In December last year, the cultural leader of the Baruuli, Ssabaruuli Mwogezzi Butamanya, petitioned President Yoweri Museveni after Tirupati Development (U) Limited, a real estate… Read more »

  • Uganda:   Land Disputes Threaten Northern Peace

    UNIRIN, 19 April 2012

    Inter-communal disputes over land and the allocation of land to private investors for cultivation, could threaten peace in parts of northern Uganda, warn officials. Read more »

  • Uganda:   Govt Bans Acquisition of Land Titles in Oil Rich Areas

    New Vision, 20 April 2012

    The Ministry of Land Housing and Urban development has put a moratorium on the issuance of land titles in the Albertine Graben oil exploration area until a physical planning… Read more »

  • Uganda:   Archbishiop Lwanga Warns Against Land Grabbing

    New Vision, 17 April 2012

    The Archbishop of Kampala Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has made a passionate plea to people who have fenced off large tracts of church land in Kisubi, Wakiso district to stop the… Read more »

  • Uganda:   Nyakana Accused of Grabbing Land

    Observer, 13 April 2012

    Businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba has threatened to drag Kampala Central Municipal Mayor, Godfrey Nyakana, to court, accusing him of grabbing a prime plot of land he (Basajjabalaba)… Read more »

  • Uganda:   World Bank Fuels Land Fund Debate

    Observer, 4 April 2012

    The World Bank has become the latest institution to call for the establishment of a strong land fund as part of the solutions to breaking down the barriers in the country's rigid… Read more »

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