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Transnational Land Grabs in Ghana Cause Conflicts

Published in Monday August 20th, 2012 In In the media

August 17, 2012 The recent increasing land acquisitions by transnational corporations (TNCs) is causing conflicts among farmers, pastoralists and other land users in Ghana, and have the potential of leading to the loss of arable land by smallholders, reveals a study. The study, which concentrated on the Prairie Volta Rice Limited in the North Tongu […]

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Nigeria: Lori-Ogbebor Leads Protest Over Land Acquisition By Govt

Published in Friday August 10th, 2012 In In the media

August 8, 2012 HUNDREDS of Itsekiri indigenes of Okere community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, were yesterday, led on a protest by Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor against alleged forceful acquisition of their land, measuring over 3.197 hectares by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for the building of a model primary school. The protesting community […]

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Nigeria: The Scramble for African Land (I)

Published in Friday August 10th, 2012 In In the media

August 9, 2012 Just like more than two-thirds of the human body consists of water, the earth is 75 per cent water. Land is therefore a precious finite resource that is just a quarter of the earth’s surface. No wonder it has been a source of many conflicts and wars over the centuries. The Arab […]

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Uganda: Gold in Mubende and 270 Families Evicted

Published in Friday August 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 1st, 2012 A gold-mining factory operating in a remote, shabby outpost of Bukuya in Kassanda North county, Mubende district, has courted conflict with more than 270 families claiming that they were paid peanuts to quit their land. AUC Mining is a locally registered company with Ugandan and British owners. The company’s local partners include […]

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Namibia: Uukolonkadhi Traditional Authority Accused of Land Invasion

Published in Tuesday July 31st, 2012 In In the media

July 31st, 2012 The Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Alpheus !Naruseb, is intervening in a land dispute in which the Uukolonkadhi Traditional Authority is accused of allotting portions of land already given to the Onandjandja resettlement project. !Naruseb confirmed that he is still investigating the matter. About 40 families of returnees were resettled on a […]

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Namibia: Entire Community Faces Eviction

Published in Tuesday July 3rd, 2012 In In the media

July 3rd, 2012 At least 36 households of the /Khomanin community under the leadership of Chief Josephat Gawa-!Nab who live at Satansloch Farm near Daan Viljoen Game Park are about to be evicted. The farmers, who moved to Satansloch in 2010 after most of them were evicted from nearby farms where they worked, are mainly […]

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Panama: village of the damned

Published in Monday July 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 14th, 2012 One indigenous tribe is engaged in a life and death struggle against the big business interests flooding their land. Away from its busy capital city and famous canal, Panama is one of the world’s most ecologically diverse nations. Yet huge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway are seeing pristine rivers damned and […]

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Making land laws work better for women in Rwanda

Published in Tuesday June 26th, 2012 In News

June 22, 2012 When Thabita Mukamusana’s partner died shortly after the birth of their child, she raised their son without hope of connecting him to his paternal family, or his inheritance, in her village in south-west Rwanda. Because the boy had been born outside of marriage, she believed that any claim would be impossible. Yet […]

600 settlers face eviction in Namibia

Published in Monday June 11th, 2012 In In the media

June 8, 2012 About 600 settlers in the Tsumkwe area run the risk of being evicted from their communal dwellings if government does not come to their aid soon. The settlers, who have been living in the area since 1987, claim that the late chief of the Hai-khom San and former Member of Parliament, Geelbooi […]

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UN approves guidelines against land grabbing

Published in Monday May 14th, 2012 In In the media

May 12, 2012 After three years of discussions, the UN has agreed a document meant to protect local populations against land grabbing. It should help ensure the right to food. When big investors buy up land, small farmers are often driven from the land that feeds them. On Friday (11.05.2012) the 128 countries in the […]

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