By: Thin Lei Win Myanmar Now

Date: February 23rd 2016

Source: Mizzima

La Laung Daung Nan vividly remembers the last day of April 2015.

By: John Kamau

Date: February 21st 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation

OPINION

Many Kenyans have never heard about the Z-Plots - yet if anyone wants to investigate the origins of land grabbing in Kenya, this is where they should start.

By: Danish Khan

Date: February 22nd 2016

Source: The International News

Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all cultivated land in Pakistan. Moreover, fifty percent of the rural families are landless and this number is continuously on the rise.

By: Aslam Shah

Date: February 19th 2016

Source: Daily Times

Sindh Assembly issues notification granting leasehold rights to slum dwellers

KARACHI: Thousands of innocent Karachiites are being deprived of their hard-earned lifetime saving in shape of properties encroached upon by the 'katchi abadis'.

By: SOSTHENES MWITA 
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Daily News Tanzania

By: W. T. WHITNEY

Date: February 16th 2016

Source: Counterpunch

Progressive political movements in Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil have recently encountered reverses. Bolivian President Evo Morales is his country’s longest serving president and first indigenous one. Now his 10 – year old socialist and anti-imperialist government faces a hurdle.

By: Chetan R, Bangalore Mirror Bureau

Date: February 16th 2016

Source: Bangalore Mirror

In a curious case, a routine hearing at the state information commission on denial of information exposed a 20-acre land grabbing case in the real estate hotbed of Doddaballapur.

By: Staff Reporter
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: Times Live

The land reform plan President Jacob Zuma envisaged in his State of the Nation address on Thursday will prompt a mass exodus of foreign investors, AfriBusiness has warned.

AfriBusiness said Zuma was "creating more investment uncertainty" and that it would oppose any legislation licensing land expropriation.

By: APA
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Star Africa.com

A coalition of civil society activists have condemned the verdict against a group of land rights activists jailed last week after confrontation with a French agri-business firm over land ownership.

The men, who are part of the Malen Land Owners Association (MALOA), were jailed for a maximum of five months after a protracted trial for destroying palm trees belonging toSocfin.

By: Nyemudzai Kakore
Date: February 11th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Herald

Government has introduced a new data system that will curb multiple farm ownership by not allowing anyone who already has multiple farms under A1 or A2 to be allocated another piece of land.

The new database system is being implemented in conjunction with the Registrar-General's Office and is part of Government strategy to weed out individuals who have multiple farms.

By: Leon Louw
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Business Day Live

WHEN people own their homes they take home tins of paint instead of bottles of brandy. But for many black households a generation after apartheid ended little has changed; they still do not own their homes and kraals. Land dispossession, apartheid’s greatest travesty, lives on.

By: T. Ramakrishnan

Date: February 9th 2016

Source: The Hindu

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein also calls for reducing the size of the military force in the North and East to a "less intrusive" level.