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Witness Radio - Uganda works to put powers of change in the hands of indigenous/local communities through media and legal aid approaches. Visit: www.witnessradio.org

Witness Radio - Uganda

Africa’s responsible business agenda is facing challenges as more land is taken from local communities for investment, and landowners struggle to secure justice #EABHR @rrightsafrica.bsky.social @globaljusticec.bsky.social @rightsindevt.bsky.social Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/africas-resp...

Agroecological Entrepreneurship: African farmers are redefining agriculture by building agroecological businesses that challenge industrial models. #AgroecologicalEntrepreneurship @esaffuganda.bsky.social @agroecology.bsky.social @grain.org Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/agroecologic...

Land surveyors escape mob action in Mubende over alleged illegal demarcation. #Land @wwtlc.bsky.social @rightsindevt.bsky.social @hrw.org @grain.org Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/land-surveyo...

Buvuma residents drove off surveyors as they resisted the surveying of their land targeted for palm oil tree planting. @palmoildetect.bsky.social @palmoil.io @grain.org @ipes-food.org @rightsindevt.bsky.social @hrw.org @fundhumanrights.bsky.social Read more: witnessradio.org/buvuma-resid...

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NEMA‘evictions’: how the process reveals NEMA’s mistakes and failures to ascertain whether people who have lived on their land in Kawaala since the 1940s are lawful occupants @accountcounsel.bsky.social @rightsindevt.bsky.social @bothends.bsky.social Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/nema-evictio...

The 2nd edition of East Africa Business and Human Rights opens in Nairobi, highlighting the critical issue of African States’ limited participation in global treaty-making, which risks leaving the continent’s specific needs unaddressed. #EABHR Read more: witnessradio.org/the-2nd-edit...

Women farmers in East Africa refuse to vacate their land to give way to land-based investment projects. #LandGrabbing @amnesty.org @bothends.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org @fundhumanrights.bsky.social @stopeacop.bsky.social Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/women-farmer...

#AccountabilityinCrisis: Development banks, while funding Asia’s energy transition, are accused of silencing Asian local and Indigenous communities, highlighting the central tension between a clean-energy push and the repression of those most affected. Read more: radio.witnessradio.org/1-2/

The UAE agribusiness giant Elite Agro has just opened its 7th farm in Morocco. Spanning 200 hectares, it will produce high-end berries for the international market. farmlandgrab.org/33534

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"The future of farmer-managed seed systems in Africa is inseparable from the future of digital justice, because the struggle is over both seed and the data relations through which seed is governed, valued and transformed," says African Centre for Biodiversity acbio.org.za/seed-soverei...

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By Witness Radio Team. Mubende: Residents of Kisagazi Village, Kiteera Parish, Butoloogo Sub-county, Mubende District, drove away land surveyors accused of trying to illegally demarcate land boundarie...

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Land surveyors escape mob action in Mubende over alleged illegal demarcation. -

NEMA ‘evictions’: how the process reveals NEMA’s mistakes and failures to ascertain whether people who have lived on their land in Kawaala since the 1940s are lawful occupants. -

By the Witness Radio team. In Kyankwanzi District, central region of Uganda, tens of thousands of people displaced to make way for the Kikonda Forest Plantation say they are still waiting for justice ...

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By the Witness Radio team. On August 24th this year, as Namala Christine turns 66, she might have been celebrating her life. Instead, she wonders what went wrong and now faces her next birthday homele...

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Africa’s responsible business agenda is facing challenges as more land is taken from local communities for investment, and landowners struggle to secure justice. -

By the Witness Radio Team Nairobi, Kenya: Prof. Damilola Olawuyi, Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, has urged African countries to take an active and leadin...

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By the Witness Radio team and Nancy, a Kenyan human rights Defender. Every day, Sharoon walked to the sea, not only to fetch water but also to fish. The Indian Ocean has always been the lifeline of he...

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Women farmers in East Africa refuse to vacate their land to give way to land-based investment projects. -

By the Witness Radio team. In rural Senegal, women’s groups use roasting, grinding, and mixing equipment to turn local beans, spices, and traditional ingredients into a natural product called Sumpak. ...

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Agroecological Entrepreneurship: African farmers are redefining agriculture by building agroecological businesses that challenge industrial models. -

By the Witness Radio team. In Buvuma District, a group of Bibanja holders drove away surveyors and protested what they regarded as land-grabbing for palm oil cultivation. Residents state they have law...

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Buvuma residents drove off surveyors as they resisted the surveying of their land targeted for palm oil tree planting.

By the Witness Radio Team. As the world races to abandon fossil fuels and embrace renewable energy to avert climate catastrophe, development banks, governments, and corporations promote this transitio...

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Accountability in Crisis: Development banks, while funding Asia’s energy transition, are accused of silencing Asian local and Indigenous communities, highlighting the central tension between a clean-e...

The UAE's Elite Agro Holding has inaugurated its seventh farm in the Kingdom of Morocco, marking a major milestone in the Group’s international expansion and long-term investment in one of its most im...

Elite Agro Holding expands Morocco footprint as investments in the Kingdom exceed AED 500 million

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