https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Researchers sound the alarm: Uganda’s oil development threatens the nation’s vital wetlands. 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. A Ugandan minister is in the hot seat over the grabbing of land from a peasant in Kiryandongo district. 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. More than 500 Masindi residents live in fear as a tycoon targets their land. 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. 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. Rising fertilizer dependence sparks debate over Africa’s agricultural future; experts call for urgent critical review process. Civil society groups at UNCCD COP17 are calling for urgent action on land rights, drought, and vital funding. Four youth activists now face public nuisance charges after their arrest during a bold march toward Parliament. Youth activists detained as they boldly petition Parliament, demanding a future for Uganda free from oil dependency. Communities file second complaint against World Bank-funded project over failed redress in Tanzania. Court Ruling: RDCs and police cannot stop lawful land evictions. The Indigenous Seeds movement in East Africa is convening in Kenya, with the potential to reshape the region’s food systems. CSOs demand a stronger UNDP accountability mechanism to offer meaningful redress to victims. Wars are disrupting food systems, and ending world hunger requires urgent global action, experts say. Food systems in conflict areas: Architectures of armed conflict are turning food and hunger into weapons of war. Experts warn that without Africa’s control over resources and climate financing, the continent faces the risk of entering a new era of “green colonialism”. Home Experts rally the region to unite behind East Africa’s transformative Agroecology Bill. “We are facing increased violent land dispossessions and climate injustices” – African women. Kassanda businessmen accused of a second attempt to grab an 86-year-old farmer’s land despite court orders. Communities once resettled by President Museveni in Kiryandongo now find themselves losing their land to a sugarcane investor, accusing the Uganda Land Commission of granting a leasehold behind their backs. Civil society groups scoff at AfDB’s New African Financial Architecture Initiative, saying it’s here to worsen challenges facing African food systems. Women farmers in East Africa refuse to vacate their land to give way to land-based investment projects. Podcast Podcast Show Uganda is grappling with mounting land struggles as the needs of refugees collide with the rights and hopes of the communities that host them. As TotalEnergies’ profits soar, calls are growing for the company to answer for the human rights abuses and environmental damage linked to EACOP. 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. Breaking: El Niño looms over East Africa and Asia, bringing the specter of floods and disease outbreaks. Civil society organizations across East Africa have revived their campaign against the EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill 2025, just as the regional parliament opens the floor to public consultations. Smallholder farmers and civil society organizations have launched a dynamic media campaign for the inaugural Eastern Africa Indigenous Seed Conference, inviting more smallholder farmers to join the agroecology movement. UNCCD COP17 kicks off in Mongolia, drawing nations together to tackle urgent issues of land, drought, and food security. Contact Us About Us Inside Eastern DRC War: The untold story of grabbing land for local and indigenous communities. Karamoja stands on the brink, with nearly half a million people gripped by acute hunger. World Environment Day 2026: Environmental Advocates warn of rising ecological costs arising from Uganda’s land-based investments. More than 17,000 people in the Philippines face eviction from their ancestral land for a multimillion-dollar energy project. Peruvian communities have launched a global petition to halt a mining project they say threatens the water supply of over 10 million people. Stop favoring export-oriented production over strengthening local food systems – Food Sovereignty advocates to the African Development Bank officials. Africa’s responsible business agenda is facing challenges as more land is taken from local communities for investment, and landowners struggle to secure justice. A community in Yumbe district has raised serious concerns about allegations of land-grabbing involving an aspirant for Uganda’s Parliamentary Speakership, affecting over 50 families. 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. Agroecological Entrepreneurship: African farmers are redefining agriculture by building agroecological businesses that challenge industrial models. The untold struggle of community land right defenders in eastern DRC’s three-decade war.