The Department of Town and Regional Planning is faced with a shortage of land, which poses a serious challenge to the statutory control over the Francistown planning area, it has been revealed.
A group of Rift Valley elders have criticised proposed land provisions in the draft constitution.
The German embassy has once again lashed out at the government for violating a bilateral protection agreement between the countries, writing a letter of complaint about the forced takeover of yet another farm belonging to a German family.
Those urging fellow Kenyans to divorce the Mau debate from politics are missing the point: The Mau saga is a product of pure politics.
Kenya 's Rift Valley province is famed for large-scale food production alongside images of dying animals and hungry people.
More than 70 youths armed with crude weapons on Tuesday raided Sheriani village in Kikambala and demolished more than 15 houses leaving hundreds in the cold.
Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital have decried the activities of land speculators in the town who they lamented were frustrating the state government's efforts at making land acquisition less cumbersome for intending land owners.
Kayunga District councillors strongly oppose a move by the Banyala community to split from Buganda kingdom, Daily Monitor can reveal.
Ugandan policy makers amuse me. Most of them have read history but have failed to learn anything from it. In 1998, Parliament of Uganda enacted a law to regulate relationship between lawful and bona fide occupants of land and to provide for registrable interests on the land by the occupant in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 237 of the 1995 Constitution. This law (The Land Act, 1998) ...
Land reform in Côte d'Ivoire must take into account people displaced by conflict, says a report by the International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Special Programmes minister Naomi Shaban Tuesday said that the the real figure of the squatters evicted from the Mau forest was yet to be ascertained.
The political groupings that have been evolving in the past few weeks in the wake of the Mau Forest evictions have indicated the dangers of parliamentary democracy in a situation in which politics is defined by vendetta and ethnicity, instead of principles.
Parliament has deferred a motion by Kweneng South East Member of Parliament (MP), Edward Raletobana, calling on the government to revise eligibility for land allocation from 21 to 18 years.
The wrangle between Mmokolodi villagers and a quarrying company over the use of a road that passes through the village is scheduled for hearing before the Lobatse High Court on December 18. The case has been postponed several times due to the unavailability of either attorneys for the litigants or the judge himself.
According to Ann Kairaba from the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD) said that most of the conflicts in the region were based on inherited land of which fighting people don't have supporting documents showing their ownership.
President Jakaya Kikwete has assured Arusha residents and the rest of Tanzanians that despite the newly signed EA common market protocol there should be no concern about land being taken by foreigners.
A ranching company at the centre of a Sh1 billion land row with the Ministry of Information on Monday resolved not to pay any more money to a consultant who brokered the deal.
Buganda Kingdom has asked its attorney general to look at the possibility of seeking recourse in the Constitutional Court following last week's passing of the Land Bill.
Notorious media 'hangman' Tafataona Mahoso has been implicated in the forced seizure of yet another farm in Mutare, as the countrywide wave of farm invasions continues to escalate.
THE Mengo establishment is considering legal action against the Central Government over the Land Amendment Bill that was passed by Parliament last week.
An apparent surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow food and other crops for export has set alarm bells ringing on and off the continent. The headlines have been strident: "The Second Scramble for Africa Starts," "Quest for Food Security Breeds Neo-Colonists," "Food Security or Economic Slavery?"
It has been called the next golden commodity by investment firms, and 'neocolonialism' by the now repentant director general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf.
It's going to be a Christmas of political intrigue, as MPs on Sunday stepped up the war of words over the conservation of Mau forest and deal-making ahead of an election which is still three years away.
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) urged African leaders to resist the Corporate Industrialization of African agriculture which will result in massive land grabs, and for the issue to be raised at the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen, at the Pan African Network workshop held from November 23rd -25th, 2009 at Wasamara Hotel here.
Property loan stock company, Vukile grew its distribution to its linked unit holders for the six months ended by 6.6% despite higher vacancies, increasing bad debt and pressure on rentals.
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