Tag Archives: compensation

Buliisa, Uganda | URN | As Uganda races toward first oil production, promises of economic transformation are colliding with unresolved grievances from the country’s oil frontier. In Buliisa, hundreds of Balaalo pastoralists forcibly evicted in 2010 remain uncompensated, excluded from the prosperity built on the land they once bought. Enos Mubangizi …

Arua, Uganda | URN | Residents of three villages affected by the planned expansion of Arua Airfield are calling for a swift and transparent land valuation process, saying they have waited years for compensation after voluntarily offering their land for the project. The Project Affected Persons (PAPs) say they remain …

Masaka, Uganda | URN | At least 30 people living within the demarcated route of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project in different parts of Lwengo, Kyotera, and Rakai districts are seeking a retrial of a compensation case instituted against them by the government, alleging judicial misconduct. The …

Jinja, Uganda | URN | What started as an unusual domestic arrangement in Kagoma-Makota village, Kagoma Town Council in Jinja District, has ended with village leaders mediating a peaceful separation between two men who had been living with the same woman under one roof. Forty-six-year-old Judith Babirye had been living with …

  Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The hearing of applications against the construction works of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project has flopped due to the missing court files. A section of the EACOP-affected persons from Kyotera, Lwengo, and Rakai districts filed two applications before the Masaka High …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has advised leaders in the Lango Sub-region to form a select committee of trusted individuals to engage the government in the ongoing cattle compensation program. The proposal came on Sunday during a meeting with leaders of the sub-region over the …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Vice President, Rtd. Maj. Jessica Rose Alupo Epel, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to implementing the long-awaited cattle compensation program. She noted that the compensation will be carried out in a phased manner. Alupo assured affected communities in the Teso, Lango, and Acholi …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has allocated sh150 billion to compensate war debt claimants in the Acholi, Lango, and Teso sub-regions for cattle lost during past insurgencies. Each sub-region is expected to receive sh50 billion. Dr. Kenneth Omona, the State Minister for Northern Uganda Rehabilitation, revealed the development …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Monday 24th February, John Lubega Nsamba traveled to Kigali Rwanda attend the Appellate Division of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ). The court was hearing an appeal filed civil society organization challenging the decision of the Court’s First Division on case against …

Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project affected persons (PAPs) staged a protest in Mafubira trading center along the Jinja-Kamuli highway Tuesday, over what they described as delayed compensation. The protesters, mostly women and youth, marched from areas including Kamuli Road, Mafubira Zone A, and Mafubira Zone …