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Lawyers for the family of former President Daniel arap Moi say armed GSU officers removed workers from a 1996-held parcel in Eldoret after a directive that properties adjoining the State Lodge be vacated.
A Leadership investigation traces how agents, forgers and fake developers sell plots that do not exist or have been sold several times over, as regulators admit weak consumer protection.
Women’s land rights advocates from 22 African countries meeting in Arusha have marked a decade of the Mount Kilimanjaro campaign by demanding official data on how many rural women own land, saying the gap makes progress impossible to measure.
A lawyer and a land investigations expert have been remanded to Luzira Prison over allegations that they obtained Shs520 million from a Chinese national by promising to sell him land in Kololo, Kampala.
Delsa Investments, held by a trust of which South African property tycoon Des de Beer is a beneficiary, bought 5.5 million Lighthouse Properties shares for about R44.8 million, extending a buying run that has topped R77 million since June.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has asked senators to reconsider the future of Moi Airbase in Eastleigh and Wilson Airport, arguing the city cannot keep relying on decades-old land-use decisions as housing demand and high-rise development press against aviation and security limits.
Lagos has suspended reclamation of wetlands, floodplains and lagoon fronts where developers lack environmental and drainage approvals, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu warning that building over wetlands is worsening flooding and coastal erosion.
Uganda's lands ministry has proposed raising the fee for replacing a lost land title from Shs15,000 to Shs200,000 under a review that would also lift registration and search charges.
More than 208 shacks were destroyed in a fire at Masinenge informal settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, where the province is building 882 permanent houses and has already moved 586 residents into new homes.