June 8
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Land Grabs Threaten San in Namibia [analysis]
OSISA
Just weeks after a critical UN report on the status of indigenous people in Namibia, the scale of the government's failure to promote and protect their rights has been highlighted... Read more »
June 7
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Stop Intimidation Around Sierra Leone Oil Palm Project [opinion]
Pambazuka
Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to African land grab Read more »
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New Era
The Zeraeua Traditional Authority has lodged an urgent application with the Windhoek High Court to evict some of its members from three resettlement farms. Read more »
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Developers Seek Idle Govt Land
Capital FM
Property developers in the country have urged the government to come up with a policy that will see some of the State's idle land released for property development. Read more »
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The Tambadous Land Case Proceeds At High Court
Foroyaa
The ongoing land dispute case between Sulayman Tambedou and other family members, as plaintiffs, and Edrissa Bensouda, as defendant, yesterday, Thursday,30 May,2013 proceeded at... Read more »
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Speaker Rules Over Customary Land Bill
Malawi News Agency
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AD Hoc Committee to Address Legacy of 1913 Land Act Welcomed [press release]
DA
The 1913 Land Act was the original sin of Apartheid, which facilitated the widespread and systematic, economic and land dispossession of millions of black South Africans. 19 years... Read more »
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Mung'aro to Help Settle Kilifi Squatters
The Star
KILIFI North MP Gideon Mng'aro has pledged to work with the provincial administration and other stakeholders to resettle squatters in his constituency within two years. Read more »
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Twenty Charged With Land Fraud
The Star
TWENTY men were yesterday charged before a Mombasa court with fraud involving various parcels of land belonging to a company associated with President Kenyatta's kin. Read more »
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Nelulu Eviction Order Now Final
Namibian
THE eviction of the chairman of the Oukwanyama Traditional Authority, George Nelulu, is now final according to a letter he received from the Ondonga Traditional Authority on... Read more »
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Nantaba Cannot Cancel Land Titles [opinion]
Observer
Both the New Vision and The Observer newspapers of May 15, 2013, carried a story that Lands State Minister, Idah Nantaba, was set to cancel 500 fake land titles. Read more »
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Return Grabbed Land - Kachapin
The Star
West Pokot governor Simon Kachapin has asked private investors and politicians to stop developing grabbed land in the county. Speaking to Star yesterday, Kachapin said those who... Read more »
June 6
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Land Fraud 'Threatens National Security'
Heritage
Liberia's new Solicitor General (SG)has detected what she says is a national security threat to the peace of the country. SG Betty Larmine-Blamo Tuesday, 4 June 2013 told state... Read more »
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Trucks Arrive to Evict San Despite Govt Denials [press release]
Survival International
Government trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. Read more »
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South Sudan Kids Say 'No' to Cattle Camps
VOA
In South Sudan, some parents expect their children, including boys and girls as young as six, to help out with family chores before they go to school and after they get home, but... Read more »
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President Dismisses Danger of Land Grabbing
AIM
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Sunday in Yokohama categorically denied that land grabbing could take place along the Nacala Corridor in the north of Mozambique under the... Read more »
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New Era
Residents of Dordabis say the situation at the settlement has become tense between them and the owners of neighbouring private farms and they have since petitioned government about... Read more »
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Land Governance Assessment Workshop Kicks Off
Foroyaa
The Gambia Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) Technical Validation Workshop kicked off yesterday, Tuesday,28TH May 2013 at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi, Kanifing... Read more »
June 5
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Landgrabbing to Provide Horn of Africa With Electricity
IPS
Ethiopia's long-term hydropower strategy is proving to be both a source of economic sustenance and contention. In becoming Africa's leading power exporter through the construction... Read more »
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The Star
PEOPLE who will be displaced by the expansion of Kabunde airstrip expansion in Homa Bay County will receive compensation. The Governor Cyprian Awiti said those whose homes will be... Read more »
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Dhadho Gives Notice to Tana River Land Grabbers
The Star
Tana River county Governor Hussein Dhadho yesterday ordered land grabbers to surrender all public land. He promised to recover all land acquired illegally. Speaking in Garsen,... Read more »
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Mutua Names Machakos Task Force On Land
The Star
GOVERNOR Alfred Mutua yesterday appointed a task force to deal with the long standing land dispute between Kiima Kimwe residents and the Municipal Council of Machakos. Read more »
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Mwana Mukia Says Trespassers Causing Heavy Loses in Thika Farm
The Star
Mwana Mukia Housing Co-operation Society directors have threatened to sue people invading their Thika Farm (Mitumbiri) in Maragua, Murang'a county. Read more »
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House Committee Members Say They Will Solve Land Issues
The Star
Members of the National Assembly Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources have assured Kenyans that land problems will be solved soon. Read more »
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SA to 'Put 1913 Land Act Behind Us'
SA Info
The notorious Natives Land Act was passed on 19 June 1913. On 19 June, 100 years later, the government will call on South Africans to make a "determined national effort to put that... Read more »
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