The ongoing land re-registration process is likely to be slowed down by the mounting number of cases of land-related conflicts.
Parliament approved the sessional paper No 3 of 2009 on the national land policy on December 3, 2009. This is historic and momentous.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has ruled out a possibility of de-gazetting more land from Mt. Elgon National Park to resettle part of the Kapsekek community in Bukwo district who missed out in last year's resettlement exercise.
A UNITED Nations official has urged women in Kitgum district to start owning property like land and houses.
Ocampo detectives in Rift Valley." That was how one newspaper headline read just before ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrived in Nairobi last month.
A man evicted from Mau Forest has died from a suspected pneumonia attack at Tirigoi camp in Kapkembu area.
PARLIAMENT recently passed the Land Amendment Bill 2007, amid controversy and resistance from Buganda Kingdom officials at Mengo. Cyprian Musoke and Denis Dibele caught up with lands minister Omara Atubo and interviewed him about the Bill, which has been a cause of controversy.
A casual look at the sharply dressed grey-haired man reveals little about the septuagenarian whose life story is intertwined with the founding of the Kenyan nation.
Five people were injured and a house was razed over a land row in Kikambala in Mombasa.
The land on which Luzira prisons is built, is up for grabs if any investor shows interest to develop it.
A civil society human rights group has issued a stern warning on more public land occupied by individuals to be vacated immediately.
THE European Union yesterday publicly acknowledged President Mugabe as the head of the inclusive Government and expressed willingness to re-engage Zimbabwe under his leadership, while acknowledging that the land issue was at the core of frosty relations over the past seven years.
The Ministry of Lands has moved fast to save the largest public beach in Mombasa from falling into private hands following public outcry.
A section of local leaders in Kabale District have opposed President Museveni's proposal to compensate people occupying wetlands as a way of restoring the degraded environment.
The Archbishop of Kampala Catholic archdiocese Cyprian Lwanga must be lauded for bringing back the debate about the Land Amendment Bill (now Act) to an even keel when he pointed out that this legislation is effectively about the relationship between the landlord and his tenants.
BISHOP Mathias Ssekamanya of Lugazi, while in Kayunga, was reported in The New Vision of December 3 to have re-visited, in his sermon, his subject of demonising the Land Amendment Bill 2007.
The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) on Monday threatened to institute legal action against state governments bent on revoking already allocated properties.
People masquerading as Mau forest evictees are still trickling into transitional camps even after the completion of a profiling exercise by the government.
BUREAUCRATIC inertia and a financial crisis at the Land Claims Commission are having a devastating effect on both land claimants and farmers at the giant Hartbeespoort irrigation scheme in the Crocodile River valley, near Brits, a major food supplier to Gauteng.
If what Internal Security permanent secretary Francis Kimemia plans for property owners in Nairobi and elsewhere is effected, then many lives will be disrupted. But there could be merit in the plan.
Being the custodian of the Ethiopian state must be an undertaking that shows no gratitude in return. In many ways, it puts those at the helm of power in a position of "Damned if you do; damned if you do not."
The leasing board of the Addis Abeba Administration has rejected the result of the lease tender the Arada District Administration had issued for four different sites in its jurisdiction on September 23, 2009.
Dukem Administration has requested the Oromia Special Zone Land Administration and Environmental Protection Bureau for permission to open a new office for functions related to the geographical information system (GIS) survey, which was completed on November 22, 2009.
The Addis Abeba Lease Board is expected to give its final decision, over the next two weeks, concerning the 36,000sqm plot in central Piassa which had been leased to Huda Real Estate of Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi. The land had been idle for the past 12 years.
HESTER Theron, the elderly mother of Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) president, Deon Theron, who was facing eviction from her farm, has won a temporary reprieve after she successfully launched a High Court appeal against a magistrates' court ruling.
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