Liberia
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Date: 14 juillet 2016
Source: Agence ecofin
Par Aaron Akinocho
Verra-t-on le Libéria retomber dans la guerre civile ? C’est en tout cas la crainte des organisations de la société civile qui estiment que l’échec de l’adoption d’une loi reconnaissant les droits des communautés rurales sur leurs…
By: Ruth Maclean
Date: 14 July 2016
Source: The Guardian
Civil society groups want 2014 bill passed before August recess, claiming land grabs have ‘turned citizens into refugees in their own country’
Liberia could be plunged back into conflict if a historic land rights bill is not passed by…
Date: 22 juillet 2016
Source: Le Monde Afrique
Propos recueillis par Laurence Caramel
Des années d’efforts pour sécuriser les droits fonciers de millions de paysans libériens et traiter une des principales sources de conflits dans le pays, risquent-elles d’être réduites à néant ? C’est la…
By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Civil society groups say failure to pass land reform could plunge the country into violence
The government of Liberia has an unprecedented opportunity to pass progressive land reform legislation…
By: Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Date: August 17th 2016
Source: Human Rights Watch
Enact Proposed Law to Protect Rural Communities
Liberia is on the cusp of passing a historic law that would strengthen the rights of rural communities to land on which they have lived and worked for generations – much of…
Date: 22 aout 2016
Source: Commodafrica
D'ici le 30 août, le Liberia devrait avoir voté une loi qualifiée de "historique" portant sur les droits des communautés rurales sur leurs terres, le Land Rights Act, rapporte Human Rights Watch.
Il existerait une forte demande au Liberia pour la terre. Entre…
By: Jos Garneo Cephas
Date: August 26th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Front Page Africa
Monrovia — Land governance and administration experts are engaging citizens through regional workshops on land governance issues, including accelerated action on the passage into law of the Liberia Land…
By: Alioune Tine
Date: August 30th 2016
Source: Front Page Africa
OPINION
Liberia, the first African country to declare itself a republic and one of three African nations to take part in the establishment and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, is on the brink of…
By: Gaurav Madan
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Motherboard
Depending on the season, the journey to Rivercess County requires either bumping along dirt paths or navigating endless stretches of mud. In the heart of Liberia the dense tropical forests, some of the last intact in West Africa, are…
By: Mark M. Dahn
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: Mongabay
Liberia has long been plagued by disputes over land for farming and forestry uses that sometimes end in murder.
Liberia has struggled to implement comprehensive land policy or laws to address the problems.
In 2009 the government of…
By: Edwin Genoway, Jr
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia - A two-day dialogue on large scale land acquisitions in Liberia started Tuesday at a local restaurant in Sinkor.
The dialogue, which attracted representatives of civil society groups, government officials and…
By: Lewis S. Teh
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: The New Dawn Liberia
Liberia’s Minister of Information has warned here that land remains a major source of conflict in Liberia. Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe said government has been involved in a land reform process for the past years, and the…