By: Mark Keith Muhumuza

Date: October 10th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor

Kampala — Land owners will have to sell their land to the government if a prospecting mining company makes a discovery.

In the ongoing review of the Mining Act 2003 and Mining Policy, landowners will no longer be required to negotiate with investors - mineral rights holders - for compensation on their land if a mining company wants to carry out mining activities.

By Soni Daniel,  Northern Region Editor

Date: October 9th 2016

Source: Vanguard

Senate gives Army, FCT Minister ultimatum to sort out Abuja land grab

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: October 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Communities that own the territory are more likely to conserve the forest than other land users

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving indigenous people land title deeds is one of the most cost-effective ways to preserve South America's endangered rainforest, a research group said on Thursday.

By: TNN

Date: October 5th 2016

Source: Times of India

By: Libby Porter

Date: October 5th 2016

Source: The Conversation

By: Rina Chandran

Date: October 4th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian officials have been slow to implement a landmark law giving rights to forests to indigenous people because they view it as a handicap to development projects spurring expansion in the fast-growing economy, a land rights campaigner said.

By: Kalpana Jha

Date: October 5th 2016

Source: Kathmandu Post

OPINION

By: Yasin Kakande

Date: October 3rd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as the diggers tore through wood, brick and corrugated iron.

By: Beh Lih Yi

Date: September 30th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions in the country's capital.

By: Manuela Picq

Date: September 29th 2016

Source: Intercontinental Cry Magazine

Challenging Terra Nullius in the courts of Guatemala

Copones is a large Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, in the northern province of Quiché along the Mexican border with Chiapas. Q’eqchi’ communities have lived in Copones for millennia, caring for rivers and the land generation after generation. Their territory extends over 20,000 hectares of clean rivers and fertile land.

By: Annie Gowen

Date: September 29th 2016

Source: The Washington Post

INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.

By: Maureen Odunga

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily

Title deeds for plots number 213 and 217 at Kinyerezi- Sokoni in Dar es Salaam's Ilala District have been revoked.

Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development Minister William Lukuvi has revoked the titles of the plots, which were earlier used as a cemetery and later maliciously transferred to Nditonda Benno Chukilizo and Pascal Kyomya Kazungu.