Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 150 families in Mutungo Zone III in Nakawa division of Kampala city who are affected by the construction plan of Jinja-Kampala Express highway road are still waiting in for compensation in vain. According to the residents, it is now three years since Uganda …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake has protested the delayed ruling in the case in which he sued the government and eight police officers seeking compensation for torture. Zaake who was on Tuesday afternoon at the High Court Civil Division together with his lawyer Eron Kiiza …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party has announced plans to join the fight to defend the rights of property owners along the crude oil pipeline route. The US$3.5 billion oil pipeline project that runs through more than 10 districts stretches from Uganda’s Albertine region to Tanzania’s seaport of Tanga. …
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Geneva, Switzerland | THE INDEPEDNENT | The World Health Organization, the vaccines alliance GAVI and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations CEPI have launched one of the most ambitious inoculation delivery plan in history, dubbed COVAX. The plan is to ensure the poorer countries in the world are all able to receive …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Drama ensued in the budget committee sitting at Parliament today, when two ministers clashed with the chairperson of the Uganda Land Commission-ULC over a sh12.1 billion request to settle outstanding compensation to six beneficiaries, under the Land Fund. The ministers Beti Kamya and Persis Namuganza …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The compensation of people affected by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project, countrywide is expected to start early next year. The 1,443km crude oil export pipeline will transport Uganda’s crude oil from Hoima in Uganda to the Chongoleani peninsula near Tanga port in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 758 victims of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA insurgency West Nile region have given the government a 45-day ultimatum to respond to their compensation demands or else they seek legal redress through courts of law. The victims issued the ultimatum on Friday through Alaka …
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COMMENT | Joseph Mukasa Ngubwagye | Projects in the oil and gas sector require, among other things, land for temporary and permanent infrastructure and installations. This land acquisition is achieved through Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) which seek to specify all resettlement arrangements and measures for avoiding, minimizing or compensating losses or …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A quarter of a century since their services were terminated, over 3,500 former employees of Nyanza Textile Industries Limited-NYTIL are still pleading to be paid the packages due to them. The desperate ex-workers, now 25 years older, were discontinued from NYTIL when the Jinja …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family of three people who were knocked by the lead car of the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga’s convoy in Fort Portal Tourism City are demanding for compensation. The accident happened on August 3 at Boma as the three were riding on a …
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