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WOLTS Team Perspectives...the story so far
‘WOLTS Team Perspectives’ is a new series of blogs launched in February 2020 by the global WOLTS team. In this series, field team members share their views about the impacts of the project’s action-research on gender, land and mining among pastoralist communities in Tanzania and Mongolia.
COVID-19: Lagos Introduces Drop Box Facility for Land Documentation
The Lagos State government says it has set up drop box facility at the Land Registry in its Lands Bureau to ensure unhindered land title documentation in this dire period of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The drop box facility is administered at the collection centre of the Lands Registry, said the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Lands Bureau, Mr. Olabode Agoro, at a webinar on: “COVID 19 Disruption and Land Title Administration in Lagos State: Preserving the Business of Real Estate”, organised by DF Legal, a firm of legal practitioners.
Land registration nationwide to be completed in 2021
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has set 2021 as the deadline to complete land registration nationwide, including indigenous land registration, with 74% of total land parcels already registered.
Around 5.2 million land parcels were registered nationwide, accounting for 74% of the total 7 million land parcels by April 2019, according to a press statement from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction dated 02 May.
Pandemic upheaval creates 'perfect storm' for land rights abuses
From forced displacement to conflict over resources, the coronavirus pandemic has created a “perfect storm” for land rights abuses - and the situation is likely to worsen, researchers and activists warned on Thursday.
The migration of men to rural areas due to lockdowns and job losses has increased competition over land, with a disproportionate impact on woman, said organisers of a land rights webinar.
Customary Landowners Urged to Register Land
Following talks on customary land being alienated from land owners, the Land Department is encouraging Customary Land Owners to have their land registered.
This is to ensure these lands are bankable, so that they can use them for further development.
Speaking to th emedia recently, the lands minister said there were policies in place for customary lands registered under the lands department.
He is calling on land owners with portions of land near towns and cities to consult the lands department, and have their land registered.
Program To Assist with Land Titles
A program was announced by Lae MP and Minister for Lands and Physical Planning John Rosso to assist people in Lae with land title issues. Mr Rosso said the program is to help those who have been residing on state land and other existing land for years without titles. “This is to give land title to people who are sitting on the existing land without attaining the land title. We will start the program at Tenth City where those in the area will be sorted out,” Mr Rosso said.
Malawi’s former leader gained from Zimbabwe farm scheme — report
Zimbabwe gave Malawi's late former president Bingu wa Mutharika a $124,111 (about R2,1m) “gift” in 2007 through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ).
This is according to an exposé by Alex Magaisa, a law professor at the University of Kent on Zimbabwe’s controversial farm mechanisation programme. The programme's $200m debt is being borne by taxpayers.
Mondulkiri villagers take land cases to court
A series of land complaints were filed with the Mondulkiri Provincial Court on Monday by residents of Lames and Pou Lu villages who claim two community leaders stole land to sell.
The four indigenous plaintiffs also filed a complaint against an environment official for not preventing the offences and against a couple – Kek Than and his wife Oeu – for land grabbing offences.
Cooperation, traceability needed to ensure success of DRC artisanal mining
he successful integration of a number of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been driven by cooperation with large-scale miners (LSMs), refiners, traders and the embedding of traceability measures, says natural resource transformation nongovernmental and nonprofit organisation IMPACT.
Lands dept looks at providing affordable housing
The Lands Department is looking at providing affordable housing for public servants as well as taxpayers.
Minister John Rosso made their intention known during a recent press brieng in Port Moresby.
Creating aordable housing in PNG’s urban centres is a complicated and daunting task considering the large number of squatters on State land, land ownership issues, the connection of utilities and reticulation on the land itself.
The Hands That Steal: Who Is Benefitting From Aid to the DRC?
A review by an anti-fraud taskforce has revealed massive corruption in the DRC involving employees of the UN and international NGOs. Lack of oversight on how aid to the DRC’s vulnerable populations is dispersed has allowed bribery to flourish in one of the world’s most mineral-rich and conflict-prone countries.