Rwanda: Rubavu Land Wrangle Should Be Settled Out of Court

16 February 2013

The news of a land wrangle in Rubavu town that pits a prominent Kigali doctor against families he claims are squatters on his land, is yet another reminder that some issues could have been avoided if proper procedures had been followed in the first place.

The so-called squatters got the land legally from local authorities and they rightly argue that if they are to move, they should be compensated for the development they carried out on the land that runs in the hundreds of millions of francs.

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