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Ogiek case: protection of an indigenous community in Kenya
25 June 2023
In Kenya, the Mau forest is the ancestral home of an indigenous community called the Ogiek people. The Ogiek community comprises 20,000 members, about 15,000 of whom inhabit the greater Mau Forest Complex, a land mass of about 400,000 hectares.
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Report Shows French Oil Giant's East African Pipeline Project Has 'Devastated' Thousands
10 July 2023
"They come here promising us everything," said one affected Ugandan. "We believed them. Now we are landless, the compensation money is gone, what fields we have left are flooded, and dust fills the air."
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When the ‘strangers’ came – Chinese rubber giant ‘destroys’ rainforests, indigenous lives in Cameroon
11 July 2023
In southern Cameroon, about 150km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a bitter story from the colonial era is playing out. Rubber companies are once again destroying rainforests and communities.
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Uganda’s president stops plans seeking to review and amend the Land Act CAP 227 that sought to curb widespread illegal land evictions
10 July 2023
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa has halted the tabling of land act reforms, saying Uganda has more serious problems to deal with than those issues arising from the current land law.
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Africa’s groundbreaking women’s rights treaty turns 20 - the hits and misses of the Maputo protocol
16 July 2023
2023 marks two decades since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) is arguably the most progressive legally binding instrument on women’s and human rights instruments globally. A total of 44 African countries have signed and ratified it.
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Who owns the world’s land? Legislation to cement communities’ historic rights stalls
15 July 2023
While land that is legally designated or owned by indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local communities worldwide between 2015 and 2020 has risen in acreage, in sub-Saharan Africa the opposite applies, says a report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI): It decreased by 2.4 million hectares (Mha) – from 9.6 percent of land across the 23 countries in Africa analysed as of 2015 to 9.4 percent of land across the same countries in 2020.
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La taxe de transaction sur la propriété foncière rurale non immatriculée de 2008 à nos jours : Une insécurité juridique persistante au détriment des populations pauvres.
Reports & Research
June, 2023
Burundi
En effet, la taxe de transaction sur la proprieté foncière soulève au Burundi une problématique à la fois économique et juridique. L’importance de la question est économique comme l’économie burundaise repose sur l’agriculture et l’élevage et plus de 90% de la population burundaise dépend directement des ressources tirées de la culture de la terre.
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
05 June 2023
An in-depth global review of land resource resource grabbing is both timely and essential reading.
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The regional implications of the Eritrean refugee crisis and conflict in the Sudan
23 May 2023
Al Jazeera reports on how Eritrean refugees are caught between crisis at home and conflict in the Sudan where there are 126,000 refugees, 11% of the estimated 1.1 million refugees in the country. For more information on Eritrea see also the Land Portal country profile. Conflict and displacement have major implications for land rights and governance.