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The Kano Economic City project at Dangwauro, along the Kano-Zaria Highway, is being developed on 117 hectares with plans for 80,000 square metres of warehousing and 12,000 shops and stalls, with several blocks already completed and occupied.
The Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area has released 76 acres for a new Ghana Police Service depot to train Formed Police Unit recruits, with a joint team inspecting the site.
Hundreds of buildings have been demolished in Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech and Fez as Morocco pushes redevelopment ahead of the 2030 World Cup, leaving displaced residents fighting for adequate compensation.
Experts say reclaiming land can create new space for Lagos to build on, but without proper engineering, infrastructure and planning it will not make housing cheaper or better serviced.
Town planners say Nigeria's rush to build housing estates on the edges of major cities is converting farmland and family land faster than planning controls can keep up, threatening food production.
Housing experts have called on Lagos to convert abandoned and underutilised public buildings into affordable homes, arguing that government should maximise existing assets before committing scarce resources to new estates.
Former Attorney General Justin Muturi has warned against alleged plans to subdivide and convert part of the 301,330-acre Galana Kulalu agricultural project in Tana River into private real-estate holdings, saying the land must remain a strategic national asset.
Kisumu County is preparing 6,487 affordable housing units across eight projects alongside four Economic Stimulus Programme markets and five student-hostel schemes with a combined 4,400 beds.
Residents of Ohiamadwen in Ghana's Western Region say the Takoradi-Cape Coast road was diverted through their homes and farms, and want all compensation settled before any demolition begins.