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Uganda Railways Corporation will begin removing illegal occupants from its land along the Kampala-Mityana, Mubende and Kamwenge-Kasese corridors on Monday 19 October, before extending the exercise to the Busoga line.
The Nairobi Rivers Commission is re-demarcating the Kibagare River through Parklands to create a public park inside a 30- to 60-metre riverbank buffer, part of Ksh50 billion Nairobi River regeneration frameworks.
Acting Rent Commissioner Frederick Opoku has ordered a landlady at Lashibi Community 16 to let a tenant back into her room, saying only a court, not Rent Control, has the power to evict.
The Federal Government wants to lift the maximum mortgage loan from N50 million to N85 million and channel up to 40% of mortgage bookings to informal-sector workers, Housing Minister Muttaqha Rabe-Darma said at the national lands and housing council in Sokoto.
The Parklands Residents Association says approvals for changes of use, densification, demolitions and building works issued after 14 October 2026 are null and void because Nairobi City County missed court-ordered planning deadlines.
Benjamin Onigbinde, chief executive of Sigvent Property Trust and convener of Housing First, says Nigeria's target of 200 housing units per local government area will not be met without harmonised federal and state policies on land, approvals and mortgages.
Morocco has named Samir Belfkih as Minister of National Territorial Planning, Urban Development, Housing and City Policy, and government spokesperson, in the new government led by Fatima Zahra El Mansouri.
A Tanzanian parliamentary committee has urged the government to set up a dedicated land bank to speed up housing delivery for public servants, as Watumishi Housing Investments pursues 739 units in the 2026/27 financial year.
About 150 farmworkers marched to Parliament in Cape Town calling on Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson to release public land for housing and redistribution. Farmworker organisations say evictions are rising and tenure insecurity is worsening living conditions.