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Uganda: Locals fear they could lose land to pave way for oil pipeline construction
Author: Oil in Uganda
"Pipeline route surveys spark fear amongst Hoima residents"...
- Related in-depth areas: Displacement
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Uganda govt. starts study on families to be resettled to pave way for oil pipeline
Author: Mark Keith Muhumuza, Daily Monitor (Uganda)
"Govt starts resettlement study on Hoima-Buloba oil pipeline"...
- Related in-depth areas: Land Rights & Displacements
- Related companies: Strategic Friends International
Uganda: 93 families displaced for oil refinery construction yet to be compensated
Author: Edward Ssekika, The Observer (Uganda)
"Hoima’s poor still seek justice over relocation plans"...
- Related in-depth areas: Land Rights & Displacements
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"Steep Rise in Allegations of Human Rights Abuse as Boom in Investment Brings Hope of Prosperity - New briefing paper on business and human rights in Eastern Africa" (announcement)
[PDF] Steep Rise in Allegations of Human Rights Abuse as Boom in Investment Brings Hope of Prosperity
Author: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
In a new briefing paper...Business & Human Rights Resource Centre...identifies three key trends in companies’ human rights impacts in the region...Executive Director...Phil Bloomer said: “The threat of the infamous ‘Resource Curse’ hangs heavy over...
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- Related companies: AngloGold Ashanti Barrick Gold Bidco Oil Refineries British American Tobacco China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Eland Coal Mining Gamma Group Japan Tobacco International Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase Kaweri (part of Neumann Gruppe) Kenya Commercial Bank Kenya Pipeline Company MTN Neumann Gruppe Nevsun Paladin Energy PetroChina (part of China National Petroleum Corporation) Philip Morris International SABMiller (part of Anheuser-Busch InBev) Safaricom Strategic Friends International Tanzania Breweries (part of SABMiller) Thomson Safaris (part of Wineland-Thomson Adventures) Total Tullow Oil Unilever Wilmar International Wineland-Thomson Adventures ZTE
Who is to blame for property valuation mess? [Uganda]
Author: Bashir Twesigye, Executive Director, Civic Response on Environment and Development (CRED), in Oil in Uganda
The oil and gas sector is swamped with complaints relating to compensation rates for crops, structures and land...[T]he government is handling the compensation and resettlement of households in Kabaale parish...whose land was earmarked for the...
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Government secures land for refinery residents [Uganda]
Author: Flavia Nalubega, in Oil in Uganda
Government has finally secured land where it will resettle the people who opted for physical relocation from...Hoima district...Out of the 2473 property owners on the 29 square kilometer refinery area, 96 opted for resettlement, while the majority...
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Oil refinery compensations: A mixed bag of hope, despair for residents [Uganda]
Author: Isaac Imaka & Frederic Musisi, Daily Monitor (Uganda)
...[The] year 2015 has been earmarked for the start of the refinery construction...At full implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP), the area...is supposed to dictate the new face of Hoima, the oil city...However, a visit to various...
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Compensated families struggle with their millions [Uganda]
Author: Flavia Nalubega, Oil in Uganda
29-year old Ukwani Musana has never seen her husband of ten years, Musana Medard, ever since he received 100 million shillings in December last year. “He left me here with the children, with no money and no food to help me survive,” she said. “I hear...
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Refinery residents blow compensation on booze, motorcycles [Uganda]
Author: Flavia Nalubega & Beatrice Ongode, in Oil in Uganda
A good number of the compensated refinery area residents are spending their money on luxuries, ignoring lessons from a crash course in financial management and investment that the government took them through last year to prepare them for the windfall....
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