By: Liga Rudzite
Date: October 14th 2016
Source: TOL.org
Human rights watchdogs are asking for their release, arguing that their protests did not breach any law.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: November 7th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - States across India are bypassing land acquisition laws by introducing land pooling schemes to speed up industrial and development projects, a move that activists say leaves farmers
CAIRO — Amid Egypt’s water scarcity, which threatens to worsen the country’s food shortage, Cairo is working to form agricultural alliances outside its borders. The efforts — which have been in place as limited experiments since the 1980s under Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak — include sending
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Channels TV
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has signed into law, a bill prohibiting forceful takeover of land, by persons or group of individuals.
The passage of the bill has formally criminalised the act, which also attracts a 25-year jail term without
By: George Omondi
Date: February 25th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Nairobi — Edible oil manufacturer Bidco has dismissed compensation claims raised by Kalangala farmers' lobby saying its involvement in Uganda's palm oil development project does not include land transaction.
In a letter
By: Mphatso Nkhoma
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Nyasa Times
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has condemned land grabbing in the capital city Lilongwe from Asian business people by a group of local business traders.
A group f traders over the weekend
By: Darshan Kunwar|
Date: August 25th 2016
Source: Times of India
DEHRADUN: Chief minister Harish Rawat has directed top officials across the state to identify those responsible for grabbing the state government land illegally to expand ashrams, especially in holy places like Haridwar, and
By: Michael Sena Dzansi
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: News Ghana
CARITAS Ghana has stated that though Ghana has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global framework for development, the country faces the risk of failing to attain some of these goals due to the negative
By: Sizwe Sama Yende
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: City Press
Criminal charges have been laid relating to one of the biggest land claim scams in the country – potentially costing the government millions – but the rural development and land reform department says it knows nothing about it.
By: Press Trust of India | New Delhi
Date: November 20, 2015
Representatives of various peasant unions, farmers' organisations and people's movements, under the banner of Bhumi Adhikar Andolan, today decided on a comprehensive agenda to achieve land rights and fight forced land acquisition,
By: Shinovene Immanuel
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: The Namibian
FOREIGN nationals will no longer be allowed to own agricultural, commercial and communal land if a proposed law tabled last week by lands minister Utoni Nujoma is passed in parliament.
Details on how government plans to ban
By: TNN
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: The Times of India
CHENNAI: A small plot of land Bagwati Sundar, a senior citizen living in Tambaram, bought in 1986 near Hindu College was safe, ironically, only till the state government showed interest in acquiring it.