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Land & land rights
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2008-04-25
As President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga sought to pave way for the resettlement of internal refugees in the Rift Valley, local MPs were opposed to the approach. The MPs, who have stated their position clearly in and outside Parliament, ar...
South Africa: The reality of farm-dweller evictions
2008-04-24
Concerns around farm evictions, reports of human rights abuse on farms, and legal access for farm workers, dominated the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) workshop on 18 April 2008 in Pretoria. Titled ‘Farm Dwellers Legal Access Crisis Workshop’, the...
Tanzania: Farmers face eviction
2008-04-18
A Norwegian cement company wants to evict an estimated 3,000 Tanzanian farmers it says are trespassing on its land. The farmers say their families have lived there for generations, and that they were not consulted when the land was sold. After 16 yea...
Western Sahara: Status quo in negotiations unacceptable – latest UN report
2008-04-18
Consolidating the status quo is not an acceptable outcome to the current process of negotiations over Western Sahara, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his latest report on the long-running dispute between Morocco and the Frente Polisario. Mr. Ba...
Botswana: Gem Diamonds sink water boreholes on Bushman land
2008-04-18
Several water boreholes have been sunk in preparation for a diamond mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), Botswana, but the Bushmen who live there are forbidden from taking any water at all from their own borehole in the reserve....
Kenya: Land forum spins new developments
2008-04-04
A special two-day stakeholders' forum last week realized a number of new developments on and around Kenya's land policy. The meeting follows last year's KARA's Bi-monthly Talk Series (BTS) session on “what future for Kenya's national land policy?”. T...
Kenya: Just why should so few own so much land for so long?
John Mbaria (2008-03-27)
As we seek answers on how the dispute over the 2007 presidential results could have triggered such wanton killings, we might ask ourselves how we got trapped in a dilemma of our own making. Most of us have been happy to live as if the total disinheri...
Kenya: An intractable land dispute grinds on
2008-03-21
More than a week after the launch of an army operation to flush out the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) in Mount Elgon, a district along the border with Uganda, the fugitive chief of the outlawed militia has reportedly urged an end to the campaign, ...
Western Sahara: Latest round of UN-led talks wrap up
2008-03-21
The fourth and latest round of United Nations-led talks, bringing together representatives from Morocco and the Frente Polisario, have wrapped up on the outskirts of New York City, with both sides once again pledging to continue negotiations. Also pa...
South Africa: Cape High Court issues forced removal order against settlement residents
2008-03-11
on March 10, 2008,Judge Hlophe of the Cape High Court (who has been embroiled in a previous corruption scandal related to property developers) issued an order for the forced removal of the residents of Joe Slovo settlement in Langa, as requested by H...
Uganda: Landless and exposed to the elements
2008-03-12
Uganda’s Batwa communities have been marginalised for decades. Now they are struggling to cope with extreme weather conditions, and want better homes to protect them from storms and landslides. Among the posh office premises of the Red Cross Society ...
Southern Africa: Securing women's access to land - PLAAS
2008-02-29
PLAAS is pleased to announce the launching of a new small grants project for action research on gender and land in Southern Africa: Securing Women's Access to Land - Linking Research with Action. In this initial phase, PLAAS is seeking Expressions of...
Ethiopia: Assessing the impacts of land registration and certification on women
2008-02-15
Land certification has been implemented in Ethiopia since 1998 and over 5 million certificates have been delivered. This is the largest delivery of non-freehold rights in such a short time period in Sub Saharan Africa. The new federal and regional la...
Global: World Bank Independent Evaluation requests input for survey on land
2008-01-28
This is an invitation to NGOs to register for a short on-line survey (10 minutes) which the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) will launch in the next two weeks. The registration process will only take about a minute of your time. The su...
Zimbabwe: A study on children's property rights
2008-01-25
This study focuses on the social protection aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights in southern and eastern Africa. It discusses the relationship between HIV and AIDS and agriculture, food security, and rural livelihoods (including chil...
Global: Survey of NGO views on World Bank assistance for land reform
2008-01-24
This is an invitation to NGOs to register for a short on-line survey (10 minutes) launched by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). The survey is being conducted by IEG to get the feedback from NGOs on the Bank's work on land reform, p...
Global: Access to rural land and land administration after violent conflicts - An FAO document
2008-01-24
Secure access to land is a crucial factor in the eradication of hunger and poverty. Providing secure access to land is frequently not easy, and it is particularly complex in situations following violent conflicts. Getting the answer right can go dire...
Botswana: Mine 'consultation' process fatally flawed
2008-01-25
Representatives from the consultancy firm Marsh Environmental Services have begun a whirlwind twelve-day consultation programme in and around the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), in Botswana. The move is part of plans to develop a $2.2 billion d...
South Africa: Shackdwellers plan resistance to forced removal
2008-01-17
About 75 shackdwellers and one family living in a house in a section of Hangberg in Hout Bay, Cape Town are facing eviction from their land by South African Sea Products. The community will appear in the Cape High Court on Tuesday 29th January 2008 t...
North Africa: Polisario losing patience over Morocco's non-cooperation
2008-01-18
The conflict between Western Sahara´s independence movement Polisario and Morocco has reached its most critical point since the ceasefire in 1991, writes Tom Varghese, right, former leader of the Rafto Foundation´s student group. Rising tensions, a d...
Namibia: Dam will mean our destruction, warn Himba
2008-01-18
Asking the local Himba people where on the Cunene River in northern Namibia they would choose to site a hydroelectric dam "is like asking me which of my three children do you want me to kill", a Himba elder told IRIN. In the event, the announcement b...
Western Sahara: UN-led talks end with parties pledging to step up negotiations
2008-01-11
The latest round of United Nations-led discussions on Western Sahara wrapped up today, with Morocco and the Frente Polisario agreeing on the need to move into a more intensive and substantive phase of negotiations. The two-day talks, which took place...
Ethiopia: Mursi celebrate withdrawal of conservation organisation from their land
2008-01-11
Mursi tribal people living in and around the Omo National Park in Ethiopia are celebrating the withdrawal of conservation organisation African Parks from their land. The decision by African Parks (formerly Africa Parks Foundation) to terminate their ...
North Africa: Protest over Sahrawi oil deal
2007-12-21
An international network organisation working in solidarity with the Sahrawi people, Western Sahara Resource Watch, has swiftly reacted to reports that a subsidiary of the Libyan state oil company [Tamoil] is on the verge of investing between US $100...
Zimbabwe: SADC tribunal to rule on landmark farm case this week
2007-12-12
The new Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal in Namibia has finally held a hearing in the case brought by Zimbabwean white farmer Mike Campbell against the government of Zimbabwe. The farmer is seeking an interim order blocking the ...
South Africa: Policy options for land reform : New institutional mechanisms?
2007-12-07
Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches to land reform have been on the agenda, yet there remains little clarity on the way forward. The main focus has been on means of accelerating the redistribution of land through new modes of acquiring land. I...
South Africa: Urban land for South Africa’s poor
2007-11-23
Why do poor South Africans have a hard time accessing urban land? This report published by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network analyses the perspectives and experiences of civil society organisations (CSOs) whose aims are to increase the po...
Botswana: Bushmen – back to court?
2007-11-23
Bushmen in Botswana have announced they plan to return to court within a matter of weeks if the government continues to prevent them from returning home. The Gana and Gwi Bushmen were evicted from their lands in the central Kalahari in 2002, but last...
Namibia: Land reform reproducing poverty
2007-11-16
Namibia's land reform programme is a "zero sum game" that merely swaps one form of poverty for another in its current resettlement programme, according to an independent report on attempts to find a equitable solution to racially skewed land ownershi...
West Africa: Niger's threatened nomads
2007-11-16
For thousands of years, the Tuareg nomads of Niger in West Africa have roamed the Sahara desert, surviving a harsh but relatively unchanging environment. But now profits flowing from mining uranium and other natural deposits are transforming small to...
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