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By: Kizito Makoye
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAMBIANI, Tanzania, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land that her father-in-law seized when her husband died in a fishing accident some 11…
By: Ludovick Kazoka
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Human rights activists have launched a coalition, Mama Ardhi Alliance, with the aim of advocating for the amendments of the existing laws which are still infringing upon women's rights denying equal access to…
By: SOSTHENES MWITA
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Daily News Tanzania
It has come to light that some devil-may-care elements invade reserved forests, national wildlife conservation areas and land belonging to schools and government institutions and private mining blocks with complete impunity.…
By: Babatunde Akinsola
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Naija247 News
Lake Victoria farmers cite Bidco land-grabbing, environmental destruction and human rights violations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
The Bugala Farmers Association has called on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
EDITORIAL
Land disputes involving farmers, pastoralists and investors have been plaguing Tanzania for years.
Cases are numerous in land tribunals and even the High Court. So serious are such misunderstandings that people have been killed…
By: Jimmy Lwangili
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Morogoro — Three districts in Morogoro Region will have their land surveyed in a bid to help people access title deeds and proper management of their land.
Surveying land and allocating it for various purposes will…
By: Jimmy Lwangili
Date: March 6th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Morogoro — Assistant Commissioner of Land in Eastern zone, Ms Juliana Pilla has urged leaders of Kilombero, Ulanga and Malinyi to resolve land disputes in the villages and wards to simplify the exercise of surveying…
By: Kelvin Matandiko
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
OPINION
Kilombero — Curbing land conflicts is high on the agenda of the fifth phase government's leader, President John Magufuli.
No wonder he cautioned new regional commissioners he recently appointed that they would be…
By: John Vidal
Date: April 18th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Edward Loure wins leading environmental award after helping communities in Tanzanian Rift Valley secure legal title to ancestral land
The Tarangire national park in Tanzania is known for its vast concentrations of wildlife in the dry…
By: Anne Kidmose Jensen
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Dar es Salaam — Human Rights Watch has urged the government to 'immediately' amend provisions of the inheritance law, saying it violates the rights of women.
Under the existing laws, women are often left with…
By: Sophie Morlin-Yron
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different…
By Edward Loure and Fred NelsonSource: The Guardian
When Edward Loure, one of the co-authors of this piece, was a boy, his family was evicted from its home in east Africa in order to expand the boundaries of Tarangire National Park, one of Tanzania’s most popular wildlife reserves. Similar…