18 June 2021
The Government in 2017 put in place Guidelines for Compensation Assessment under Land Acquisition Act.
These proposals are for reform of laws relating to land acquisition by the Government, and they include the amendment to the Land Acquisition Act (Cap 226) in order to bring it into conformity
15 June 2021
To most people, acquiring land in Uganda comes with a justified dread of having to navigate a rather tenuous sea of uncertainty regarding what rules they will have to play by, both during and after acquiring property.
14 June 2021
BISHKEK (TCA) — Territorial disputes in Central Asia do not allow countries of the region to take a step towards greater cooperation and increase regional integration. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by independent researcher Ermek Baisalov and originally published
26 May 2021
The Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) has given about 3,000 mechanics in Jinja City a six-month ultimatum to vacate land on which they are operating to pave way for revamping of the railway.
This is contained in a letter from URC to the mechanics under their association, Jinja City Mechanics and
13 May 2021
Main photo: Demonstrators rally against land reform rally in Almaty on April 24.
NUR-SULTAN -- Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has signed into law a long-debated and sensitive bill that bans selling and leasing agricultural land to foreigners in the oil-rich Central Asian state.
10 May 2021
(New York) – Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist, in Trang province in southern Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. Successive Thai governments have failed to prevent or adequately respond to attacks against human
6 May 2021
PESHAWAR: Terror incidents reduced significantly in erstwhile Fata after merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The credit for improvement goes to the security forces and other institutions.
However, increasing land disputes are now troubling the peaceful environment of merged districts and dozens of
4 May 2021
Last week’s violence was some of the worst the border has seen, with more than 40 killed.
Credit photo: Wikimedia Commons
29 April 2021
Local people evicted and livelihoods at risk in Barguna district, as civil society group warns plant will damage important hilsa fish populations.
Main photo: Construction of the Barisal coal power plant continues. Image: Md Sajjad Hossain TuhinA Chinese-backed coal power plant is being built in
21 April 2021
Fear of China fueled the activism, though frustrations had accumulated over stagnant living conditions in the provinces.
Main photo: Hands off (David Trilling)
Kazakhstan is on the cusp of imposing a permanent ban on the sale and lease of agricultural land to foreigners. It is a rare victory for
17 April 2021
Systematic effort to change Tamil areas’ demographics, alleges Batticaloa MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam.
Over the last few months, farmers of Mavadi Odai in Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa district frequently spotted something crop up on their land overnight — a border stone they had not planted.
26 March 2021
Kyrgyzstan has received swathes of land while granting Uzbeks control over irrigation resources.
(Photo: Kamchybek Tashiyev in Tashkent. Credit: Kyrgyz government)
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed on a treaty that should, its signatories hope, spell an end to the recurrent territorial