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Egypt's housing ministry is considering land repossession and new partnerships after about 450 developers failed to deliver units, with roughly 3% of active projects behind schedule.
A multi-department City of Johannesburg operation has again flagged a hijacked property in Ferndale, where Wendy houses shelter an entire community and officials say the law leaves them with few options.
Kajiado Governor Joseph Ole Lenku says Tata Chemicals Magadi owes KSh13 billion in land rates and should return part of its 200,000-plus acre holding to the Maasai community.
A 42-year-old man and his 11-year-old son died when a wall belonging to a logistics firm collapsed onto their house in Kambodia, Jomvu, on the outskirts of Mombasa, early on Monday.
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.
The Controller of Budget says Kenya has committed Sh7.28 billion to embassy and diplomatic property projects abroad, but several renovations are years behind schedule and one has cost more than its original budget.
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.
Almost one in three major government-funded housing projects in Gauteng has been illegally occupied by squatters, with the provincial human settlements department confirming that 14 of 45 projects have been invaded over the past five years.