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speedy arbitration leaves squatters in fresh land rows |
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Jeremiah Safari Kesi is a disgruntled and bitter man. He feels cheated after seeing his land given to someone else in an accelerated government process that was supposed to bring order in the allocation and possession of land.
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budalangi shows world how to end floods |
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For years, the 64,000 residents of Budalangi have been forced to flee to higher grounds as the Rivers Nzoia and Yala have burst their banks into floods that have displaced thousands, destroyed crops and washed away property worth millions. But with a case-study flood control programme now in full swing, the area looks set for a completely different future.
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government legalises millions of land plots |
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The Ministry of Lands, now on a country-wide mission to legalise land rights and issue title deeds, has adjudicated on two million land parcels since September last year, in a drive to end land disputes and enshrine legally binding agreements over land, not done in a organised drive since colonial times.
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building safe, and catching the code-breakers |
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Building a lot, and fast, is a sign of a boom economy, or in Kenya's case, a step-change continuing even through the recession. But when construction is expanding helter-skelter, up 6.9 per cent in 2007 and another 8.9 per cent last year, it matters a lot that what is going up, won't fall down.
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