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Mityana seeks land for permanent slaughterhouse after railway eviction

Mityana Municipality has budgeted Shs150 million to acquire land for a permanent slaughterhouse and set up a temporary slaughtering site, after butchers and livestock traders were evicted from Uganda Railway land.

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Kisumu County opens public hearings on new land and building rates

Kisumu County is preparing a draft valuation roll and weighing four forms of property rating under the National Rating Act 2024, with public participation meetings scheduled between November 18 and December 7.

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Egypt signs PPP deals for 20,000 affordable homes across eight new cities

Egypt has finalised public-private partnership agreements to build about 20,000 affordable housing units in eight new cities under the Housing for All Egyptians programme, with developers getting land at preferential prices.

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Tenants evacuated from ten-storey Riruta block after crack triggers enforcement notice

Nairobi City County has ordered all occupants out of a ten-storey apartment block on Kabiria Road in Riruta Satellite, Dagoretti South, after a loud bang and a large wall crack raised structural safety fears.

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Two Ghana unit committee members held over land leased to galamsey operators

Four people, including two unit committee members, have been arrested after land they allegedly leased to illegal miners contributed to the collapse of the River Kukubu bridge at Abesua in the Ashanti Region.

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Namibia scrutinises communal grazing disputes after two men killed at Otjase

Two men were killed at Otjase village near Okakarara in a dispute over communal grazing land, prompting calls for traditional authorities to be better equipped to handle land conflicts.

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Gauteng applicant waits 29 years for an RDP house as housing register passes a million

Rosinah Nketu registered for a government house in 1997 and is still in a backyard shack, while Gauteng's housing needs register carries more than 1.13 million names and the province says it cannot set an allocation timeframe.

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Kisii hosts World Cities Day as counties urged to pair housing with waste systems

Kenya marked World Cities Day 2026 in Kisii with a call for county governments to treat housing, markets and waste management as a single urban system rather than isolated projects.

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Lagos Island regeneration plan turns to pooled family land and 12-storey buildings

Lagos State says it is considering a model that would let up to three families pool property and build up to 12 floors under government guidance, as it moves from preparing the Lagos Island Model City Plan to implementing it.