Le régime foncier devrait être bénéfique pour les communautés locales et les peuples autochtones qui possèdent et utilisent des terres.
Dans la plupart des pays africains, les promoteurs acquièrent de plus en plus de terres pour des investissements à grande échelle, ce qui met en péril les droits…
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Are you passionate about upholding Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LC) rights and supporting the protection of forests and biodiversity and the governance of IPLC land and forests in the African continent?
Do you have…
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Centenas de pessoas já morreram na Somália e no Quênia; alerta para riscos de piora da precipitação está em vigor até quinta-feira; Cruz Vermelha no Uganda diz estar preparada para apoiar vítimas.
Pelo menos 96 pessoas morreram após inundações causadas…
Earlier this year (2023), the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development announced plans to amend the act to strengthen the rights and obligations of Lawful and Bonafide Occupants on registered land to curb illegal land evictions.
The ministry wanted the Act to provide for; where to deposit…
Construction of TotalEnergies' East African Crude Oil Pipeline has "devastated" the lives and livelihoods of tens of thousands of people in its path while exacerbating the climate emergency, according to a report published Monday by Human Rights Watch.
HRW's 47-page report—entitledOur Trust Is…
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For the last 50 years, local farmers in Waaki North, Kapapi Central, Waaki South, Runga, and Kiryatete villages in both Kapapi and Kiganja sub-counties in the Hoima district have been surviving on subsistence farming and rearing…
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By Witness Radio Team.
For the last 50 years, local farmers in Waaki North, Kapapi Central, Waaki South, Runga, and Kiryatete villages in both Kapapi and Kiganja sub-counties in the Hoima district have been surviving on subsistence farming and rearing…
The governments of Uganda and Tanzania have officially approved the construction of the $5 billion East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project, which is set to cover a distance of 1,443 kilometres. Uganda discovered commercial reserves of petroleum nearly two decades ago in one of the world’s…
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O objetivo do projeto é abordar a desigualdade de gênero e o empoderamento econômico inclusivo para as mulheres africanas.
Especificamente, o Projeto visa aumentar a capacidade e a sustentabilidade dos capacitadores que apóiam as Pequenas e Médias Empresas (WSMEs - sigla em…
No final de 2021, um relatório do FIDA – Fundo Internacional para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura, uma agência da ONU – Organização das Nações Unidas, divulgou preocupantes perspectivas para a produção agrícola na África. O texto alertava que a produção de alimentos básicos em oito países…
A top official in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has declared illegal all leases where land is being used by bibanja holders.
Mr Sam Mayanja, the junior Lands minister, says evictions of lessees (tenants) by district land boards should stop forthwith.
The minister…