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Residents raise alarm over encroachment and vandalism on NCRI research land

Communities around the National Cereals Research Institute say makeshift structures, workshops and block-making businesses have taken over parts of the premises, bringing security and environmental problems and prompting demolition exercises.

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Secunda property owners demand enforcement as illegal structures spread along main route

Business and property owners in Secunda say unauthorised structures and occupation along Walter Sisulu Drive are dragging down property values, even as they continue to pay municipal rates.

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Egypt moves to tighten real estate regulation with project accounts and delivery safeguards

Egypt's housing minister has outlined a regulatory framework covering developer licensing, separate bank accounts for each project and protections for buyers when delivery slips by more than a year.

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Ruto urges Kenyans to stop subdividing farmland for homes

President William Ruto has asked Kenyans to stop carving agricultural land into residential plots, arguing that affordable housing estates should absorb new households while farmland is kept for food production.

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Patriotic Alliance pledges three-month rates holiday and council house transfers

The Patriotic Alliance has put municipal bills at the centre of its election pitch, promising a three-month property rates holiday for qualifying homes, transfers of council houses to long-standing tenants and protection of municipal land for affordable housing.

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Masaka court asked to cancel 70-plus land titles on Bunyama Island

A businessman has asked the High Court in Masaka to cancel more than 70 land titles held by Ssese Oil Palm Growers Co-operative Society over 644 acres on Bunyama Island in Kalangala District.

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Kaduna pays N7bn compensation to 4,865 households displaced by road projects

Governor Uba Sani says Kaduna has paid about N7 billion to households whose homes, businesses and utilities stood in the way of township roads, with a fresh N2 billion tranche for 865 households in Zaria, Giwa and Shika.

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Mbarali MP presses government to secure farmland for smallholder farmers

Mbarali legislator Bahati Ndingo says seasonal farm rentals are eroding smallholder earnings, prompting commitments from the Vice-President and Agriculture Minister to find a lasting land-access solution.

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Macpherson ends decade-long Kouga land row with reserve and housing split

Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson has approved a plan to protect 235 hectares of sensitive state land near Cape St Francis while releasing a separate portion for future housing.