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.
A Worcester community - including a 99-year-old woman - are desperate to have their land claims paid out more than ten years after the claims were first lodged.
I would like to make a Government response to an article in one of the dailies entitled "Passing Land Bill 'shocks' Bunyoro."
Founder and General Overseer of the Oketude Ministry, Prophet (Dr.) Samson Saka, has again appealed to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), to provide him with an alternative piece of land or personally assist him financially to buy another land for his ministry.
Mogoditshane Sub-Landboard secretary, Gosaitse Kenosi has said that shortage of plots and manual record-keeping has led to delays in land allocation in the area.
With population growth rates increasing, while land size remains limited, property owners are seeking ever better ways to gain off their land.
THE leaders and communities of Amuru and Nebbi districts recently held a meeting to resolve a longtime border dispute.
THE Sabiny claiming the land in Muyembe and Bunambutye subcounties in Sironko district have asked the Government to intervene in the resolution of the dispute with the Bagisu.
Please don't deny us this one. We richly and rightly deserve it.
JIGAWA state government has allocated 20 free commercial plots to applicants who have concluded arrangements to set up industries in the state.This followed government's first approach to industrialists wishing to set-up industries to come forward for free plots in the state.
Thirty seven prominent people around former President Daniel arap Moi were illegally allocated land excised from the Mau Complex to settle Ogiek community members and victims of the 1992 ethnic clashes.
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