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Displaced people living in makeshift tents and wooden huts in Acholi District within the Archdiocese of Gulu, Uganda/ Credit: Denis Hurley Peace Institute

Catholic Peace Organization Exposes Brutal Land Grabbing and Evictions in Uganda

May 18, 2021

Cases of land grabbing and forceful evictions are on the rise in northern parts of Uganda, a Catholic charity and peace organization that is investigating human rights violations in the East African country has revealed.

A section of Kenya's Mau Forest, East Africa’s largest indigenous montane forest. Evictions have been undertaken to restore the water catchment area. Catholic want a humane approach to the evictions.

Evictions from Kenya’s Mau Forest be “humane, in dignity”, Bishops Demand

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While the reclamation of one of East Africa’s largest water towers, Mau Forest, has been welcomed by both political and religious leaders in the country, the process of evicting those who have settled in the catchment of the main rivers providing water to western Kenya has been faulted, with a section of Catholic Bishops who have spoken to ACI Africa demanding for a humane approach.

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