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Liberia: Citizens Plan Sit-in to Pressure Weah to Protect Land Rights
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 26 April 2018
"We are trying to reach out directly to the president" Read more »
Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest to secure ancestral land rights, regarded as key to averting renewed bloodshed in the resource-rich country.
More than half of Liberia's 4.3 million people live on land held under customary tenure, which provides traditional rights to land but is not secured or recognised by legal title, said the United States Agency for International Development.
According to the World Bank, 1.6 million hectares - that's almost two million football fields - of land in the country have been sold, leased, or licensed to commercial ... Read more »
The draft Land Rights Act, which would acknowledge customary rights to land, was submitted to the Senate in 2014. Read more »
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