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Deal in sight for PNG landowners protesting Exxon-led gas project

Critics of PNG LNG claim this was not carried out correctly ... Objections from landowners escalated in 2013 when construction started in Angore. The situation boiled over earlier this summer. On June ... read more

Giant Bougainville mine restart stalls on moratorium over fears of civil unrest

Momis added the moratorium was focussed more on closing the door on BCL rather than mining itself. He claims other developers are ... % of PNG’s gross domestic product. Arguments over mine pollution a... read more

Hurry up and lease your own land! Mengo is onto something on this one

Plans by the Buganda Land Board to offer 49-year leases over land it manages on ... Many public works are delayed by compensation claims. Landowners, many of them speculators, reject the compensation ... read more

Kenya: Journalist Wants MPs to Kick Swazuri Out of Office

He told the MPs that, from his experience, bribery of NLC commissioners and staff by landowners eyeing compensation for ... this time over a Sh43 million parcel owned by his wife Editor Irima Mugo. Th... read more

Decades of dispossession: indigenous Brazilians battle to get back land

Cimi's report recorded 102 indigenous land claims filed over the last two decades. Many, it said, were tied up in court, with farmers filing their own counterclaims. De Almeida said a lack of politica... read more

Tempers rise over oil palm in Sierra Leone

A German aid group withdrew one of its workers from Sierra Leone earlier this year following a dispute over ... market stalls and, following the spending spree, locals now say the compensation was ins... read more

Land redistribution back on the front burner

The ANC and its partners are placing the apparent failure of the willing seller, willing buyer model firmly at the doorstep of white farmers, who they accuse of demanding higher prices for their land ... read more

Insight into Electronic Communications Code rulings and reforms

is not of itself prejudicial to landowners and that any loss in value for diminution of the value of the land can be met with an order for compensation. It further said it recognised the grant of inte... read more

Ghana: Land Dispute Stalls EU-Funded Project

A recent fight between the two factions ended in extensive destruction of property running into over ¢100million ... to come for compensation and vacate the land. In his statement of claim to the cour... read more

80,487 trees and counting: Bullet train will dent mango, chikoo exports, say Gujarat’s fruit farmers

In the process, it will take over at least 866 hectares of fertile ... private joint venture in charge of the project – claim the bullet train will affect 5,000 to 6,000 people along the corridor. Lan... read more

FEATURE-Women lead calls for gun control in post-conflict Bougainville

"The time of using the gun is over ... landowners and residents said the mine caused environmental damage, and they resented an influx of foreign workers and profits from the huge open cut mine leavin... read more