For the first time in a long while, the Government has directed its attention to the long-suffering provincial administrators.

Scandal begets scandal. That's the summary description of the Tuesday meeting between Security Minister Mbabazi and the NRM members on the parliamentary committee investigating him over the NSSF Temangalo land saga.

One person was killed and two others injured following renewed land clashes between the Basongora pastoralists and Bakonzo cultivators in Kasese District.

The High Court on Wednesday dismissed a case in which tenants of Nakawa/Naguru have been seeking to block the redevelopment of the dilapidated estates.

I have just been in Ruhaama, Ntungamo, and I was surprised to find that the Temangalo-Mbabazi debacle is as topical there, as in Kampala, courtesy of the FM radio coverage. No one was asking about the details, they are well known.

A lot has been said and written about the Land Bill. Save for the vulnerable groups, the evictees and potential evictees fall in four broad groups, three of which may be called innocent.

THERE are four major allegations of wrongdoing in the NSSF Temangalo land investment that I wish to clarify.

The government yesterday launched the first phase of land tenure reforms stating that the new changes in land ownership and management would increase investments throughout the country.

Bush fires recently destroyed thousands of hectares of grazing land in the maize triangle area.

The reopening of a land suit before Justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos High Court has made one Chief Arimiyau Ekundayo, a surveyor and general contractor, to petition the National Judicial Council (NJC).

Botswana does not own most of the land along its borders with Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia, it emerged yesterday at the ongoing three-day National Security Strategy Review seminar in Gaborone.

THE land affairs department is expected to give an account today of huge discrepancies between what its financials said it spent on buying farms for land reform and properties listed in its land asset register.

ON A hill overlooking the celebrated Spier wine estate, near Stellenbosch in Western Cape, 12 farmers work the land on small 5ha plots. Here they eke out a living, growing produce for the market, but though hard-won, their tenure is neither secure, nor particularly profitable.

The Government has spent Sh1.8 billion to buy land to settle squatters in the Coast and other parts of the country.

THE allocation of peri-urban land in Harare for the 2008/2009 summer cropping season has gathered momentum with at least 1 000 families having already been allotted a hectare each.

Nimule, a Southern Sudanese town on the border with Uganda, has boomed since war ended three years ago, but tension is brewing over land between returnees who fled the area years ago and more recent settlers.

THE spectacular U-turn of NSSF's managing director David Chandi Jamwa in connection with the Temangalo land purchase raises a lot of questions.

At least 280 families from Bujenje County in Masindi are embroiled in a row with NRM Chief Whip, Ms Kabakumba Masiko, over 200 acres of land.

More than 3,000 squatters from Laikipia East District want the Government to resettle them after being ordered out of private pieces of land they have occupied for nearly three decades.

There are about 1,962 bona fide land owners in the Mau, and they have proof of ownership -- title deeds.

BUSINESSMAN Amos Nzeyi has said he will not surrender the land in Temangalo where his house is located to National Social Security Fund (NSSF).

Over 200 Ndorobo who were evicted from Mt. Elgon National Park by the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have petitioned the Inspector General of Government (IGG).

Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life in Tanzania, but finding shelter and enough land to farm remains a challenge.

The chairman of the Ngorongoro Conservation Authority Board of Directors Pius Msekwa has allayed fears of mass eviction of pastoralists from the area.

Following Thursday's sensational disclosure by Mr David Chandi Jamwa that "immense" and "terrible pressure" was applied on him to close the now-controversial Shs11 billion NSSF land purchase deal, it is time for the ministers at the centre of this saga to own up.