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Amicable solution: In the Philippines

One way to solve the land deadlock

The willing buyer, willing seller model is not working – but there is an alternative

Leaders smoked out in land conflict

Community members have gone into hiding after their houses were torched amid a dispute over who owns ‘traditional’ land

Avert forced removals by giving the rich’s land to the poor

The Lwandle evictions are symptomatic of a broader issue: our growing housing crisis.

The businessman’s company says it can prove that it owns a disputed farm.

Mugabe’s nephew in land dispute

Phillip Chiyangwa says residents’ claim of state ownership of the property is a payment dodge.

1913 Land Act: Bantustans left untransformed

The trajectory of the land Acts of 1913 and 1936 lays bare two interrelated processes of dispossession and disenfranchisement.

U-turn on farms worries Zanu-PF

A dispute at a farm has left Zanu-PF caught between wanting to protect foreign investors and risking incurring the anger of its key support base.

Villagers in Chinese land dispute plead for help

Chinese villagers have called on their government to intervene in a bloody land dispute that has claimed at least one life so far.

Thai, Cambodian troops clash near disputed temple

Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire on a disputed stretch of their border on Friday, killing one Thai in the latest flare-up of an ancient feud

Senator charged over deadly Liberian land dispute

Fourteen people, including a senator, have been charged with murder following a deadly land dispute that left at least 14 people dead in Liberia.