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The Controller of Budget says Kenya has committed Sh7.28 billion to embassy and diplomatic property projects abroad, but several renovations are years behind schedule and one has cost more than its original budget.
Town planners say Nigeria's rush to build housing estates on the edges of major cities is converting farmland and family land faster than planning controls can keep up, threatening food production.
Housing experts have called on Lagos to convert abandoned and underutilised public buildings into affordable homes, arguing that government should maximise existing assets before committing scarce resources to new estates.
Almost one in three major government-funded housing projects in Gauteng has been illegally occupied by squatters, with the provincial human settlements department confirming that 14 of 45 projects have been invaded over the past five years.
Former Attorney General Justin Muturi has warned against alleged plans to subdivide and convert part of the 301,330-acre Galana Kulalu agricultural project in Tana River into private real-estate holdings, saying the land must remain a strategic national asset.
An uncompleted four-storey hotel building under construction at Independence Layout in Enugu collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, killing one person and leaving four others hospitalised, officials said.
Property developers and landowners have welcomed Uganda's three-month suspension of special certificates of title but want Parliament and the Attorney General to tighten the Land Act against repeated land fraud.
The Apapa GRA Residents Association wants Lagos State to suspend permits for warehouses and commercial developments in the estate, saying the approvals are changing the character of the low-density residential area without consultation.
Authorities in Accra have started demolishing structures inside the protected buffer zone of the Kpeshie Lagoon at Laboma Beach, following a 21-day ultimatum issued by the Greater Accra Regional Security Council.