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Kishushe residents demand fresh adjudication of 18,000-acre Taita Taveta land

Leaders of Kishushe Ranching Cooperative Society want the Lands Ministry to restart adjudication of an 18,000-acre parcel in Kishushe B, alleging irregularities, weak consultation and unequal allocation of community land.

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Tanzania plans new Dar es Salaam market for small-scale traders

TAMISEMI minister Professor Riziki Shemdoe says a new market will be built in Dar es Salaam using 5 per cent of Ilala Municipal Council’s own-source revenue while a larger permanent market tied to the Msimbazi Valley redevelopment is completed.

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Britam Tower: the KSh7bn bet behind Nairobi’s tallest building

Nine years after completion, Britam Tower still tops Nairobi’s skyline at 200.1 metres — a KSh7 billion Upper Hill development that has become a benchmark for commercial office design and green building in Kenya.

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Egypt signs EGP 11trn real estate pact with Talaat Moustafa Group

Egypt has reached an EGP 11 trillion agreement with Talaat Moustafa Group for four multi-use developments, announced as President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi directed the construction of hundreds of thousands of rental homes.

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Cape Town creates specialist hub for major development applications

The City of Cape Town is setting up a Strategic Development Applications Hub at the Table Bay district planning office to handle large, complex projects separately from routine land use and building plan submissions.

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Egypt targets 39 new cities by 2050 as Madbouly defends desert expansion

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly says Egypt plans to build 39 new cities by 2050, with work on 27 already under way or complete, arguing that expansion has curbed encroachment on farmland and the growth of informal settlements.

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Asantehene launches 153-hectare land reclamation project in Ashanti

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has launched a project to reclaim 153 hectares of land degraded by illegal mining across Obuasi East, Adansi Akrofuom and Adansi Asokwa, with AngloGold Ashanti and the Lands Ministry as partners.

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Dar es Salaam is losing its green spaces as Tanzania's cities concrete over

Tanzania's urban population is projected to reach 59 percent by 2050, and in Dar es Salaam's Sinza ward only 16 of 40 planned open spaces remain unencroached, according to official planning documents.

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Cape Town and national government clash over affordable-housing subsidies

Cape Town says it has received no national subsidy payments for its affordable-housing projects since 2021, while the national Department of Human Settlements accuses the city of misrepresenting the facts and failing to prioritise well-located housing.