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Land Evictions in Western Uganda: What Our New Report Found
Our new report, Land Evictions in Western Uganda: Displacement, Dispossession and Human Rights, compiles publicly documented, sourced case studies from Kasese, Hoima, Buliisa, Kikuube and Kiryandongo districts to help donors, development partners and the public understand the scale, patterns and human cost of this crisis. Below is a summary of what we found.
A Crisis Measured in the Hundreds of Thousands
According to Witness Radio Uganda's mid-year 2024 land eviction report, the numbers behind this crisis are stark:
- Over 360,000 Ugandans affected by forced land evictions between January and June 2024
- 22,962 people completely or physically evicted
- 340,059 more living under imminent threat of eviction
- 7,150.7 hectares of land already seized, with over 114,000 more hectares under threat
- Evictions enforced by armed gangs, the Uganda Police Force, the Uganda People's Defence Forces and private security companies
The western region recorded the second-highest number of documented cases nationally, after the central region. Nationally, the Uganda Land Commission's own chairperson has acknowledged that government officials themselves are among the actors implicated in illegal land occupation.
