By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums across Sierra Leone's capital last year, 55-year-old Amienata Bangura was forced to flee as her small shop, stock and years of savings were wiped out.

By Zabihullah Noori

Date: October 11th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

In conservative Afghanistan, properties usually registered to men but there are plans to issue joint ownership rights to married couples

By: Beh Lih Yi

Date: September 30th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions in the country's capital.

By: Maureen Odunga

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily

Title deeds for plots number 213 and 217 at Kinyerezi- Sokoni in Dar es Salaam's Ilala District have been revoked.

Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development Minister William Lukuvi has revoked the titles of the plots, which were earlier used as a cemetery and later maliciously transferred to Nditonda Benno Chukilizo and Pascal Kyomya Kazungu.

Date: 19 September 2016

Source: KHMER TIMES

City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement released yesterday.

By: Kizito Makoye 

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

"The use of drones will help us to define the boundaries of plots of land on the ground with great accuracy"

By:  S. Matthew English

Date: September 4th 2016

Source: The Coin Telegraph

A Blockchain-based land registry may help create new toxic assets and lead to a new financial meltdown.

By: Katy Migiro

Date: September 2nd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Community Land Bill lays out the steps for communities to acquire titles to their ancestral land

NAIROBI, Sept 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Impoverished nomadic communities across Kenya are to receive land titles under a new law that experts hope will help end land conflicts, boost development and improve investor relations.

By: Ian Allison

Date: August 31st 2016

Source: International Business Times

Blockchain-based Bitland is looking to address the unregistered land issue in West Africa.

By: Chris Arsenault 

Date: August 30th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

"People are actually dying because of this issue"

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of formal property deeds is causing conflict, greater deforestation and environmental damage, researchers said on Tuesday.

By: Helen Davidson

Date: August 24th 2016

Source: The Guardian

Federal court decision over extinguishment of title in Timber Creek in Northern Territory could leave Australian governments liable for future claims

By: May Titthara

Date: August 19th 2016

Source: Khmer Times

Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday.