News on Land

ECONOMYNEXT – Land owned by Sri Lanka railways will be offered for private developers for investment, Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa said presenting a budget speech.

“I propose to obtain investments through public-private partnerships and local and international sources to implement mixed development projects comprising of shopping malls, financial services, hotels, office facilities, cinema halls, entertainment centres [and] apartments,” he said in a budget for 2022.

He said some lands owned by Department of Railways are currently not being utilized productively.

A recent report released by the United Nations revealed that 74% of speaking time at the U.N. climate talk negotiations is taken up by men.

The Land Commission of 1957 was critical of the manner in which during the past two decades land had been alienated without sufficient regard to its physical character and suitability for the purpose for which it was enacted. The Land Commission of 1987 correctly emphasized that the issues which dominated the attention of successive Land Commissions depended largely on governmental perspectives.

Le ministre de l’Équipement, M. Hamadou Adamou Souley a présidé le 9 novembre 2021 à Niamey, la cérémonie de lancement de la mise en œuvre de la Politique Foncière Rurale au Niger et de son plan d’actions 2021-2025. Plusieurs acteurs impliqués dans l’élaboration de cette Politique et la mise en œuvre du plan d’actions ont pris part à cette cérémonie, dont des membres du Gouvernement, le représentant des partenaires techniques et financiers, le secrétaire permanent du Code Rural, etc.

The issue of land, especially its redistribution, remains contentious in South Africa 27 years after the formal end of apartheid. Land redistribution was promised at the end of apartheid. The failure of the African National Congress (ANC) government to do so is emblematic of its failure to fundamentally transform the country.

BOUSSÉ — Terror attacks on gold mining operations in Burkina Faso are becoming a regular occurrence. For VOA, reporter Henry Wilkins looks at the impact the attacks are having on the lives of survivors and what it could mean if extracting gold, the country's primary source of income, becomes too dangerous.

“Boukare,” whose name has been changed to protect his identity, is a survivor of the Yirgou massacre.

The attack by an unknown terror group in June this year targeted a small informal gold mining site, like this one, and killed at least 160 people, mostly mine workers.

Lucky Mabhiza, a journalist for the Mbare Times reports that the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has cancelled certificates of registration for mining in Uzumba that had been given to a Chinese company, Heijin Mining Company (PVT) LTD.

207 land certificates were  recently handed over to the beneficiaries, men and women, of the Benga and Karunga hills of Isare commune, Bujumbura province.

Yesterday for the first time at a UN climate summit, world leaders shone a spotlight on forests and land. Heads of state, corporate moguls and philanthropists lined up to announce huge figures to protect nature and halt and reverse forest loss.

Kim Harrisberg and Megan Rowling writing for the Thompson Reuters Foundation examine how 1.1 million people have been severely impacted  by  persistent drought in  Madagascar and how 14 000 are one the edge of famine.

Tafadzwa Ufumeli writing in African Arguments analyses a conflict of interest between the Dinde Community and Chinese coal mining investments