🚨September updates from oil-affected communities are here. They include: ➡️EACOP-affected people raise alarm over livelihood restoration delays ➡️Locals complain as EACOP encroaches on land ➡️Bugoma forest & oil host communities request clean energy skills 📸👇CNOOC Uganda Limited

We been warning that the redevelopment of Nakivubo channel will cause environmental & human rights harm to the residents of Kampala. Simple rains in Kampala and floods are affecting people & economic rights & livelihoods are being lost. #SaveNakivubo

As the planting season kicks off ,it’s our duty to preserve and multiply indigenous seeds through agroecology practices to produce healthy foods. #Agroecology #IndeginousSeeds

"The stakes are high. Floods are already disrupting lives, and unchecked development could make Kampala unliveable.  This is a fight for justice, climate resilience, and the soul of our city" AIFE calling CSOs & activists to join #SaveNakivubo campaign. margheritanews.ug/2025/10/aife-u…

Monday's downpour flooded Nakivubo & surrounding areas, affecting vulnerable traders, thus violating their rights. This is due to the illegal redevelopment of the channel. It's time to question Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) environmental mgt #SaveNakivubo campaign: margheritanews.ug/2025/10/aife-u…

Uganda is heating up and not just the land. As climate extremes intensify, mental health is collapsing under the pressure. Heatwaves, displacement, crop failure they leave scars you can’t see. This isn’t just a climate crisis. It’s a psychological one. #MentalHealth

The fight to save Bugoma forest is still on.

Outrage over Kitubulu forest land giveaway monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…

Over 40 organisations & defenders have petitioned @UHRC_Official over the prolonged detention of 12 #StopEACOP activists arrested for peaceful protest. 📄 The letter, also sent to Judiciary Uganda & @Parliament demands their immediate release. #Stanbic12 ygcug.org/download/urgen…

Lwera wetland degradation is taking a toll on residents again. Illegal sand mining & rice farming continue to cause flooding, destroying homes and crops, leaving families homeless. Local authorities have failed to stop the destruction. It's now upon us to #SaveLweraWetlan

As the impacts of oil activities increase in the affected communities of ug, we continue to empower small scale farmers in Albertine region through agroecology to achieve food sovereignty and sustainable livelihoods.We need to preserve traditional knowledge for food sovereignty.

Locals and environmentalists are determined to continue demanding that National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) stop the ongoing destruction of the Lwera wetland by investors. #SaveLweraWetland margheritanews.ug/2025/04/lwera-….

Yesterday, Freedom Hive Uganda launched an environmental protection campaign dubbed #SaveKitubuluForestNow at Kitubulu Forest in Entebbe. This forest reserve, which falls under the protection of the National Forestry Authority-Uganda and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) was controversially allocated by the Government of Uganda to a

Last week, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs , presented her latest report to the UN General Assembly on defenders working for climate justice and a just transition. Read the full report here: docs.un.org/en/A/80/114 See the summary 📸👇

8 #SaveLweraWetland activists have been arrested at National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) while delivering a petition against environment degradation in Lwera Wetland due to human activities. They're being detained at CPS Uganda Police Force. We demand their immediate release. #SaveLweraWetland

. @CICOA_UG strongly condemns the arrest of activists demanding to #SaveLweraWetland. We’ve seen and confirm the ongoing destruction and the empty rhetoric on ending sand mining. #EnvironmentalJustice 1/2

The 8 #asaveLweraWetland activists have been remanded to luzira prison until 4/11/2025.

Lwera Wetland: Female Climate Activists Arrested for Exercising Their Constitutional Rights  via UgStandard ugstandard.com/lwera-wetland-…