Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A team from Nakasero Primary School led by the School Management Committee chairman Joel. Kalyesubula Bakawa Ssekabembe on Tuesday appeared before the Land Probe Commission over a fraudulent attempt to give away the school playground. This follows a petition the committee filed in May, 2017 …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Prominent businessman Dr. Ephraim Ntaganda was detained on Tuesday on orders of the Land Probe Commission Chairperson Justice Catherine Bamugemereire to explain how he convinced the Commissioner Land Registrar to acquire what she said were illegal titles in wetlands and forest reserve land owned by …
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Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Rwanda’s gorilla protection zone has enlarged following the African Wildlife Fund move to donate 27.8 hectares of land to Rwanda Development Board (RDB). The land is to be incorporated into the 16,000 hectares’ Volcanoes National Park, located in north-western part of the country, bordering Virunga …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The State Minister for Water Resources Ronald Kibuule Wednesday appeared before the Land Probe Commission to defend himself over claims by Buganda Land Board that he illegally owns 85 acres of land at Kigaya Golomola village in Buikwe District, from which he intends to, evict …
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THIS WEEK: Bullisa Locals reject Shs3.5million land compensation funds Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Jan.04 meeting between Land Minister Betty Omongi and the locals of Bullisa district who own land at place where government intends to construct the Central Oil Processing facility didn’t yield much after they failed …
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Paris, France | AFP | More than a quarter of Earth’s land surface will become “significantly” drier even if humanity manages to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, the goal espoused in the Paris Agreement, scientists said on Monday. But if we contain average warming to 1.5 C (2.7 …
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YEAR IN REVIEW: February 2017 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officially, the reason for President Yoweri Museveni’s Feb.21 appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into Effectiveness of Law, Policies and Processes of land Acquisition, Land Administration, Land Management and Land Registration in Uganda (in short `The Land Inquiry Commission 2017’) …
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Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s new government ordered Thursday that land confiscated from a white farmer to give to an ally of former president Robert Mugabe must be returned. Robert Smart, who grew tobacco and corn on his farm in Makoni in eastern Zimbabwe, was evicted in June after …
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THIS WEEK: Bamugemereire land commission extended Kampala,Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The land commission of inquiry chaired by the lady justice Catherine Bamugemereire has been extended for another six months after the initial term expired on November, 09. In the legal notice dated November05 the president wrote that the notice was …
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THIS WEEK: Mbarara councilor suffers acid attack Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Nov.08 a night before he was set to appear before the commission of inquiry investigating land matters, Amos Katureebe the councilor for Nyamityobora in Mbarara was attacked by unknown persons who poured acid on him. Katureebe who …
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