By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Hoima — Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom has asked government to initiate affirmative action programmes for women whose livelihoods have been disrupted by oil exploration activities in the oil-rich Albertine Grabben.
By: Pambana Bassett
Date: March 5th 2016
Source: Amandela
The concerns about the massive land grab of Belize, whether it be up to the Sibun River, or the entire 8,867 square miles of land in addition to sea territory, are serious. The oligarchy of Guatemala has made a habit of usurping land from those to whom it belongs, for hundreds of years.
By: Hazel Ndebele
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: Zimbabwe Independent
By: Niranjani Roland and Asanka Fernando
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: UCA News
Punchirala Somasiri feels helpless whenever his oldest child asks for extra money to buy things for school. Most of the time he has to borrow money from a friend to give to his child.
By: Anabel Lemos
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: Truth Out
This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, and conducted, edited and condensed by Simone Adler.
Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.
By: Joe Torres and Mark Saludes
Date: February 29th 2016
Source: UCA News
A fact-finding mission launched by church and environmental groups in late February discovered "police brutality and land grabbing" were committed in a mining town north of Manila.
By: Siddharth Ranjan Das
Date: February 27th 2016
Source: NDTV
SARGUJA: Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.
But around 300 tribal families in the village allege what is also being wrecked is the law that assured them first rights to the forest.
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
EDITORIAL
Land disputes involving farmers, pastoralists and investors have been plaguing Tanzania for years.
Cases are numerous in land tribunals and even the High Court. So serious are such misunderstandings that people have been killed or injured, livestock wounded, homes set alight, farms destroyed and hostilities lingered.
By: Babatunde Akinsola
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Naija247 News
