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Tanzanians evicted from flood-prone city areas have nowhere to go
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: January 25th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "Free education but nowhere to sleep!" reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam's Jangwani slum, summing up the plight of hundreds of residents forcibly evicted from flood-prone areas of the Tanzanian capital.
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
Namibia: Govt Refuses to Help 'Landless Resettled Farmers'
By: Theresia Tjihenuna
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Namibian
Government says it is not responsible for a stand-off involving two resettlement beneficiaries and a previous farm owner who is refusing to vacate land that has been sold to the state.
Habitat III: ‘The future of Africa is urban’
By: David Lawal
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: The Nation
The city of Abuja, under the auspices of the Government of Nigeria, is about to host a strategic event vital to the future of Africa and its citizens.
The Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting of 24-26 February is a crucial spur to the current global debate on urbanization as a source of prosperity and an engine of development.
Killings, evictions push minorities to point of "eradication"
By: Lin Taylor
Date: 12 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday.