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The Addis Ababa City Administration says 496,971 homes were built and handed over to residents over the past five years, with a further 4,200 transferred in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
After 16 years of planning, the R5bn Leratong City development in Kagiso is opening its first stage on 29 October, anchoring a regional mall, a 3,000-person entertainment precinct, a private hospital and a planned 15,000 homes.
More than 200 farmers at Akyem Asene near Oda say their cocoa, food crop and oil palm farms were destroyed eight months ago for the Accra-Kumasi expressway without compensation, and that some destroyed farms have still not been measured.
The High Court has stopped Shanta Gold from entering, prospecting or drilling on private land in three Siaya sublocations without the express consent of registered owners, and blocked a mining licence for the Ramula Mboma project until consent is documented.
The Nigerian Army says ongoing works at the 7 Division Cantonment in Maiduguri will provide accommodation for more than 4,000 families once completed, alongside a 50-bed hospital ward and a new divisional headquarters complex.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says 460 permanent homes will be completed at Cornubia in KwaZulu-Natal by mid-2027 for families displaced by the 2022 floods, with a further 145 houses under construction in a second phase launched this week.
Lagos State's water regulator says it will prosecute property owners and seal buildings where boreholes were drilled or groundwater abstracted without permits, warning that unregulated drilling threatens water security and contributes to land subsidence.
Uganda's lands minister says government needs about Shs8 trillion to acquire land for infrastructure projects under the Fourth National Development Plan, with nearly 90 per cent of public projects delayed by acquisition and compensation problems.
Kenya's High Court has declared that President William Ruto's 2025 directives reserving 20 per cent of affordable housing units for teachers and police officers have no legal effect, ruling that executive pronouncements cannot rewrite the allocation criteria set by Parliament.