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Tanzania is reviewing the law governing village, ward and district land councils to decide whether to strengthen their dispute-resolution powers or transfer their functions to the courts, the Minister for Constitution and Legal Affairs has said.
Nigeria has inducted its first certified forensic engineering failure investigators in Abuja, a programme launched after a 2026 study documented 111 validated building collapses and 321 deaths between 2015 and 2025.
South Africa's Department of Land Reform and Rural Development has approached the Special Investigating Unit to probe farm worker equity schemes after nearly R700 million was paid to 89 schemes, most of which have failed, been sold off or cannot be traced.
Taxpayers have paid R600 million over five years to maintain three parliamentary villages and ministers' official residences in Cape Town under a single public works contract, as Parliament moves to take over their management.
Kenya's National Land Commission has published fresh compulsory acquisition notices covering SGR Phase 2A parcels plus road and water projects in Kajiado, Kiambu, Nyeri and Migori counties, with public inquiries set for October and November 2026.
The Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly has pulled down structures built on land belonging to the Mpatado Model School, warning developers that construction without permits on public land will not be tolerated.
The Suleja Development Association has asked the Niger State Government to suspend a plan to convert land earmarked for the Suleja campus of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University into a market, saying the community was not consulted.
Kenya's High Court has ordered a former Kilifi Principal Land Registrar, his wife and associated companies to forfeit assets worth Sh426.8 million to the state after they failed to satisfactorily explain how the wealth was acquired.
Kenya's Court of Appeal has dismissed 42 consolidated appeals against the Affordable Housing Act, 2024, upholding the law and the mandatory 1.5 per cent payroll levy that funds the government's housing programme.