The government is forcefully evicting thousands of people, including the indigenous Sengwer tribe, from the Embobut forest in western Kenya in an effort to promote forest ... Read more »
A court in Monrovia has declared Grace Minor, a former senator and an ally of ex-president Charles Taylor, wanted over a land dispute. Read more »
Tension is high in Nairobi's Kibera slums following the impending issuance of title deeds by President Uhuru Kenyatta to the Nubian Community. Read more »
Soaring global demand for palm oil is pushing illegal land clearances and causing conflict among indigenous peoples, writes VOA. Read more »
Ninety percent of Nigeria's rural population is employed in agriculture, making land the most valued asset of many rural people. However, rural farmers often lack the funding to ... Read more »
Traditional pastoral and farming communities hope the new pastoral bill will adress land conflict by clearly demarcating boundaries and identifying corridors for the movement of ... Read more »
President Uhuru Kenyatta has requested that the Lands Ministry look into allegations of illegal land allocation by government officials from the previous regime in the Coast ... Read more »
Are the government's large-scale developments in southern Ethiopia forcing local populations to move with the times or just move out the way, asks William Davison for ThinkAfrica ... Read more »
Justice for victims of Kenya's 2008 post-election violence was one of the central objectives of the settlement of the ensuing crisis which was negotiated by a team headed by former ... Read more »
Cameroon has finally taken full control of the oil-rich peninsula of Bakassi, which has long been at the center of a territorial dispute with neighboring Nigeria. Read more »
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