Category: Community Stories

NEMA says it is restoring wetlands, but poor urban families say it is using the exercise to grab their land for new infrastructure projects – now they demand compensation and resettlement.

NEMA says it is restoring wetlands, but poor urban families say it is using the exercise to grab their land for new infrastructure projects – now they demand compensation and resettlement.

Rights experts call for an inclusive transition as the East Africa region attracts renewable energy investments.

Rights experts call for an inclusive transition as the East Africa region attracts renewable energy investments.

CSOs welcome the World Bank’s accountability reform and demand an influential role in selecting its new accountability leadership, underscoring the importance of genuine justice for communities.

CSOs welcome the World Bank’s accountability reform and demand an influential role in selecting its new accountability leadership, underscoring the importance of genuine justice for communities.

World leaders are urging support for pastoral mobility as a crucial strategy to sustain rangelands and address intensifying challenges from climate change and land pressures.

World leaders are urging support for pastoral mobility as a crucial strategy to sustain rangelands and address intensifying challenges from climate change and land pressures.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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-energy push and the repression of those most affected.

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-energy push and the repression of those most affected.

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.

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.

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

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