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The City of Harare and developer Everson Loony undertook in the High Court on Friday to stop all work on a 21-unit low-density scheme on the Borrowdale West wetland until a legal challenge to its environmental approval is determined.
Sub-Saharan Africa is on course to host five megacities by 2050, with Angola's Luanda projected to pass Lagos as the continent's biggest metropolis, according to a new World Bank study.
President John Dramani Mahama says 200 acres have been acquired at Weta in the Volta Region for a light industrial area dedicated to textile and garment manufacturing, to be developed by Ghana EXIM Bank.
Uganda's National Social Security Fund expects to hand over the first 350 units at its Temangalo housing project in Wakiso District on 31 March 2027, with bookings due to open this month.
Buganda Kingdom deputy prime minister Robert Wagwa Nsibirwa said the Kabaka has settled all expenses on land secured for a Kyaggwe county stadium, leaving a survey and a development plan to be approved by the kingdom's parliament.
A joint committee of Nebbi District Council has recommended that 505 acres of land at Omvuro be handed back to the Uganda Investment Authority for an industrial park, subject to stakeholder consultations, moving to end a four-year dispute over the property.
The National Land Commission has published a notice of intention to compulsorily acquire 11 private parcels totalling about 8.39 hectares in Nairobi and Kiambu counties to make way for the dualling of the Muthaiga-Kiambu-Ndumberi road.
The Nigerian Army has commissioned 40 housing units for personnel in Benin City, Edo State, under its Affordable Home Ownership Option for All Soldiers scheme, with five per cent of the units reserved for soldiers severely injured in the line of duty.
Dar es Salaam regional commissioner Albert Chalamila says the government has opened talks with the National Housing Corporation, the Tanzania Buildings Agency and NSSF on a framework for buying land from residents to replan and redevelop the city.