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Residents of three Ebute-Metta West communities have asked Lagos State's planning appeals committee for N1 billion in compensation over a 2024 demolition they say was unlawful.
Tanzania is developing a National Land Data Infrastructure to centralise land records, with land boards and valuers directed to speed up the digitisation of their services.
Nairobi County has opened a regularisation amnesty giving property owners with unauthorised developments until December 31 to obtain the required planning approvals.
Zanzibar's deputy minister for lands told the House of Representatives that land taken for investment without proper notice or compensation will be returned to owners where mistakes are verified, or fairly compensated where return is legally impossible.
Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso told Parliament the latest figures date from a 2017 audit that found foreign nationals owned 0.56% of South Africa's land, and that new legislation on foreign landholding is being drafted.
Nigeria's housing ministry has set up a 15-member ministerial committee to turn validated stakeholder recommendations into an implementation framework for housing sector reforms, giving it six weeks to deliver a work plan.
The Tanzania Building Census 2022 counted 14,348,372 buildings, overwhelmingly low-rise, privately owned homes, highlighting the built-environment gap the country must close to reach its Vision 2050 goals.
Kenya's affordable housing programme absorbed Sh122.2 billion in the 2025-26 financial year but completed and handed over only 1,836 units, the Controller of Budget's latest review shows.
Addis Ababa's housing bureau lifted the baseline construction cost for government employees' housing cooperatives from 35,000 to 50,000 birr per square metre, prompting several cooperatives to halt work.