Tag Archives: land

President Yoweri Museveni has stressed that Ugandans should use the law to solve issues related to land wrangles and avoid taking the law into their hands. Museveni called on parliament to revise and strengthen the laws on murder and rape with a view to ensuring that cases related to those …

By Flavia Nassaka From Oct 19 to 23, Uganda will be hosting the annual land conference which has seen land actors under their umbrella the International Land Coalition (ILC) Africa Regional Assembly attending. This conference takes place at a time when the country is experiencing an increase in land conflict …

By Christina Malmberg Calvo Promote more efficient land use to support a shift towards higher value economic activities By 2040, Uganda expects to have realised its vision of a transformed economy. Commercialisation of agriculture and urbanisation are key processes to raised productivity and transformation.  Both processes require an efficient and …

By Joan Akello Edmond Malilo Owor, Executive Director, Uganda Land Alliance talked to Joan Akello about land issues. What land activities are you carrying out currently? At community level, we carry out sensitization and mobilisation. We have sensitised about 20,000 people on the rights on land such as land access, …

By Okello Lucima No matter where the boundary markers fall, the population still have the rights to live on their land What is happening to the Acholi community in Apaa, Amuru District, is nothing but blatant, brutal ethnic cleansing, orchestrated by the state. Unless and until the border between Adjumani …

By Morris Ogenga-Latigo Leaders need to champion radical reforms not play politics to please voters In 1994, when supporting a candidate for the Constituent Assembly election, I extracted key issues in the Draft Constitution. On land, I was emphatic that former president Idi Amin’s 1975 Land Decree was the best …

By Flavia Nassaka Future of tertiary education threatened as public university land bonanza goes on unabated Increasingly, public universities are losing large chunks of their land to private owners through dubious means. If not checked urgently, there is a fear that encroachment on land on which public education institution sit …

By Stephen Kafeero Developers fleeing crowded and expensive Kampala hit Museveni’s backyard Who is Bob Kanabi? That is the question Vincent DePaul Kayanja, the mayor of the once quiet and cool Entebbe Municipal Council on the shores of Lake Victoria, has been asking a lot lately. The mayor wants to …

By Stephen Kafeero Yusuf Nsibambi is the chairman of the Kampala Land Board spoke to The Independent’s Stephen Kafeero about disagreements with KCCA and the future. It feels like all you have had to do for the last two years is fight KCCA over the management of Kampala land. What’s …

By Haggai Matsiko A Minister threatens to evict 2,000 as big-wigs scramble for public land in oil region Somewhere in Hoima district the small sub county of Kyangwali is home to one of the Albertine’s biggest oil fields — Kingfisher – said to be one of the largest oil wells …