Oil, Land, Dispossession and Justice In Uganda: Voices from the Albertine

Oil, Land, Dispossession and Justice In Uganda: Voices from the Albertine

In Uganda Radio Network’s National Perspective this week, over the past months, our team has spoken to farmers, landowners, legal representatives, and activists across Uganda’s oil-rich Albertine Graben and along the route of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
We have reviewed court documents, compensation reports, and environmental assessments. What we uncovered is a story of promise, displacement, and contested development — a story that affects lives, livelihoods, and the very land people call home. The dispossessed landowners share their plight of Justice Delayed, Justices denied, how the on going oil and gas developments are turning out like a curse. 

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A map showing oil and gas fields in the Albertine.
Communities in the Albertine have reported a surge in human wildlife conflicts blaming it on oil and gas operations in Murchison Fall National Park.
One of the most contested projects in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP
Kingfisher Before an FID was taken. The landscape has greatly changed with production expected in four months from now.
Restored area dry well.
The Bugungu escarpment in Kikuube district where CNOOC is developing the Kingfisher project Credit Wambi Michael.
Cattle grazing in Buhuka. What will happen to the herdsmen in the area.

This article was produced with support from Environmental Defenders journalism grants 2025. It was first published by the Uganda Radio Network

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