Squatting in Uganda

[1] The 1995 Constitution of Uganda mandated four forms of land ownership, namely mailo, customary, freehold and leasehold.

[3] The government sought to regulate squatting amongst other things with the 2010 Land Amendment Act and the 2018 Landlord and Tenant Bill.

[3] Pastoralists such as the Bahima were driven off their traditional lands when the government created ranches and nature reserves, thus forcing them to become squatters.

[5] In 2007, Makerere University in the capital Kampala began demolishing shacks in the Katanga slum.

[6] People fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo entered western Uganda in 2012 and when the refugee camps became full, they began squatting.