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Uganda's State Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Persis Namuganza, says old and unfit buildings along main streets will be demolished beginning in Kampala, with owners given the chance to redevelop or partner with government under a public-private arrangement.
The City of Cape Town has begun drafting refined development guidelines for large-scale data centre applications, confirming that a contested hyperscale rezoning approval remains suspended while an appeal is decided.
Transparency International Kenya has filed 15 public interest court cases in a year over leadership and integrity failures, with land-related disputes the most reported corruption issue in its databases.
More than 800 farmers on the Accra-Kumasi Expressway corridor are to receive compensation after Ghana Armed Forces engineers cleared 183.6 kilometres of right-of-way, exceeding the original target by eight kilometres.
Nairobi County has begun a comprehensive review of development controls and land-use zoning across some of its most affluent and high-growth neighbourhoods, with the first public participation forums scheduled for late September.
Civil society groups have lodged a formal appeal against the land-use approval that lets US technology company Equinix build a hyperscale data centre at King Air Industria in Cape Town, saying the impact on nearby communities, water and electricity was never properly assessed.
Buyers who want a court to compel a land seller to complete a transaction must first honour their own contractual obligations, Kenya's Court of Appeal has ruled in a dispute over a partially paid land purchase.
Two Customary Land Secretariats have been inaugurated in Sunyani in the Bono Region and Kwahu Obomeng in the Eastern Region to strengthen land documentation, with the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands noting that about 80 per cent of Ghana's land is held under customary ownership.
Mombasa County has clarified that its directive on pre-mixed concrete applies only to construction sites without enough space to mix on site, while maintaining a ban on building materials spilling onto roads and walkways.