Total Energies

Total Energies oil project in Uganda - Environmental activists demonstrate in Kampala against EACOP.

Uganda

Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial

15 December 2023 by Grace Matsiko (our correspondent in Uganda)

While the Cop28 negotiations were taking place in the sumptuous halls of Dubai, no less than 42 families from Uganda's oil-rich regions were expropriated from their homes on a Friday afternoon, in an expeditious court hearing. To [...]

Climate Justice Activist Demonstrates Against Total Energies Project in Uganda

Climate trials: What to make of multinationals’ string of victories?

6 April 2023 by Mathilde Hautereau-Boutonnet

After the two recent victories in France and Germany of Total Energies and Volkswagen, the author of this Opinion wonders if it is really useful for environmental NGOs and climate justice activists to sue multinationals.

In the foreground, a boat and inhabitants. In the background, a shovel.

Uganda

Uganda: Meeting farmers fighting for justice against Total

26 August 2022 by Robert Odongo

In the western part of Uganda, about 100,000 people are displaced by a huge oil project mainly run by the French giant Total Energies. The area has been placed under a blanket lockdown by the government. And Total is now subject t [...]