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Senegal airport row shows land right tensions in West Africa
The piles of concrete and twisted metal in the Tobago neighbourhood beside Dakar's international airport were home to Senegalese families until bulldozers arrived last month without warning.
A line of six homes remain, given a reprieve until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Looking at the rubble of their former homes, the head of the residents' association says he does not believe the government's explanation that the houses were a security risk.
Philippines: Bugkalot tribe receives land titles
By: Leander C. Domingo, TMT
Date: January 2nd 2017
Source: The Manila Times
NAGTIPUNAN, Quirino: For the Bugkalot tribe, it is a blessed New Year receiving their Certificates of Land Ownership (CLOA) as Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano.
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
AUGUST 15, 2015
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
Arrests in Karen State Target Those Assisting Farmers Fighting Land Grabs
Community Volunteers Help Tanzanian Widows Access Land Rights
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: 12 January 2017
Source: IDN - InDepthNews
Kiyowela village in Tanzania’s southern highlands, every widow has a story to tell about how community volunteers have helped them solve property disputes with their relatives.
Angola grants 7,000 hectares of land to Cabo Verde
The government of Angola granted a plot of 7,000 hectares in Kwanza Sul province to Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) for agricultural development, said Thursday the Cape Verdean ambassador to Angola, Francisco Veiga.
The ambassador, at the end of a courtesy visit to the governor of Kwanza Sul, Eusébio de Brito Teixeira, said the government would now consider what to produce on the land but said that maize production from improved seeds was one of the priority crops.