Women leaders and miners from Bunyoro and Rwenzori sub-regions have petitioned government to set up a mineral wealth fund through which they can directly benefit from proceeds from the exploitation of minerals. They made the resolution on Thursday in Hoima Town during the launch of the Action Research on the... Read More
The 2014 Trafficking in Persons report by the US Department of State placed Uganda as a source, transit and destination country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. sssgAlthough human trafficking is not new, it’s only just receiving official attention from the government. Recently, Gender minister Mary Karooro Okurut... Read More
Chemicals and chemical waste in the extractive sector pose a great risk to miners, communities around mining areas and the environment. Large swaps of land near mining areas are often degraded; miners and communities nearby develop health problems but may not immediately associate their health problems with the effects of... Read More
Wilmar International, one of the largest oilseeds corporations in the world is developing palm oil plantations in biodiverse islands off the coast of Lake Victoria, Uganda. The project is a partnership of Wilmar with the Government of Uganda, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Kenyan oilseeds company Bidco.... Read More
Mbarara deputy Resident District Commissioner Moses Mwebesa and residents of Nyamitanga Division have faulted authorities charged with environmental protection of giving up the campaign to save River Rwizi from unfriendly human activities. Sand mining in the river at Kirehe in Nyamitanga Division has made the river come close to changing... Read More
The current dry spell is significantly affecting the forest cover in parts of Bunyoro sub region where forests are being used as a tool of heritage conservation. Hundred of trees recently planted as part of a campaign to conserve the 12-pet names ( empaako) of Bunyoro and Toro are drying... Read More
The World Bank group has said decline in global oil prices should not discourage the development of the oil industry in Uganda as the resource will be pivotal in economic development. The World Bank says the reason why Uganda and the oil companies exploring oil should not lose hope is... Read More
The environment activists also opposed the palm oil project that was aimed at reducing the country’s dependence on imported vegetable oil saying the project would destroy forests with no regard for environmental regulations Kampala. Lands minister Daudi Migereko has told conservationists that protecting forest cover alone does not bring about... Read More
Palm oil producers backed by the UN taken to court by evicted farmers who say they have received little compensation Before the bulldozers came, Magdalena Nakamya harvested coffee, cassava, avocado and jackfruit on her three-hectare (seven-acre) plot on Kalangala, an island in Lake Victoria. But on a July morning in... Read More
PARLIAMENT. Lawmakers yesterday banged tables, called the water and environment minister names, before kicking him and his officials out of a meeting called to discuss a ban on the use of polythene bags.MPs on the Natural Resources committee led by former Finance minister Syda Bbumba, who announced the ban in... Read More