News on Land

By: Channels Television

Date: February 16th 2016

Source: Channels Tv.com

It may not be business as usual for land grabbers in Ogun State, South West Nigeria whose activities have been responsible for many deaths and breakdown of law and order.

The Police authority in that state has reiterated its commitment to move against the practice by those popularly referred to as “omo onile”.

RANGOON – Around 100 Sittwe residents called for the resignation of the Arakan State parliament speaker in a Tuesday protest over unresolved cases of land confiscation, rally participants told The Irrawaddy.

The land grabs in question date as far back as the early 1990s, when Burma was governed by a military junta. Seizures of land were reportedly carried out to develop an industrial ward in the area.

By: Faraz Haleem
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: China Business News

By: Lou del Bello

Date: 12 January 2017

Source: IRIN

Living in the Kenyan slum of Mukuru is hard enough, but when it rains it’s downright miserable. Streets flood, sewage overflows, homes are inundated. 

After each bout of torrential rain, Nairobi’s largest informal settlement is left a little shabbier, a little poorer, the community more insecure.

By: Heba Hashem
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: PV Insider

By: Janet Shoko

Date: March 9th 2016

Source: The Africa Report

Zimbabwe has set up a fund to compensate white commercial farmers who were dispossessed of their land during an often violent land reform programme that began in 2000.

By: Ming Tian
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CCTV

How can China deal with this real estate glut - that 720 million square meters of unsold housing? Political advisors say urbanization may be the way. 

Real estate developers are feeling the heat, especially in less developed areas of China.

Large numbers of new apartment buildings stand empty. What used to be an asset has now become a liability.