Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Prime Minister for the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Andrew Byakutaga has said that the land leased out to Hoima Sugar Limited is not part of the 41,000 hectares of Bugoma central forest reserve. Byakutaga together with other kingdom officials were on Tuesday meeting eight European …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Environment Beatrice Anywar has called for the blacklisting of Hoima Sugar Limited, the company at the center of the controversial giveaway of Bugoma central forest reserve for sugarcane growing. Anywar wondered how the company which is bent on pushing its …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Desperate times call for desperate measures. With alarm and pressure from activists and now donors over plans to plant sugarcane in parts of Bugoma forest, Members of Parliament want government to invoke its land acquisition power to save the forest. Civil Society organizations have …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society organizations-CSOs are demanding for the resignation of Andrew Byakutaga, the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom prime minister and the entire Kingdom cabinet over the giveaway of Bugoma central forest reserve in Kikuube district to Hoima sugar limited. The CSOs say the prime minister and the …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kikuube are investigating circumstances under which an employee of Hoima Sugar Limited was hacked to death. Gideon Odaga 37 a casual labourer at Hoima sugar Limited and a resident of Ajinjera village in Zombo district was hacked to death on Friday night by …
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