Nigeria: Hoodlums Take Over Abandoned Imo Lawmakers' Quarters - What is happening to the Imo State House of Assembly or otherwise called Parliamentary Quarters over a year, the occupants were evicted from the place? [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: IMHA Quarters Not Abandoned­--Commissioner - The Imo State Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Chief (Mrs.) Comfort Chukwu, has debunked claims that the Imo State House of Assembly (IMHA) quarters has been abandoned. [AA Urbanisation]

Botswana: Somerset Squatters Living On Borrowed Time - The Francistown City Council (FCC) public relations officer, Priscilla Gulubane, said the council does not have the power to evict the squatters who remained when people were relocated to Gerald Estates 10 years ago. [AA Urbanisation]

Kenya: Scramble for Beach Plots Deepens Squatter Crisis - Seven years after independence, President Kenyatta issued a quiet decree on acquisition of beach plots and what came to be known as second-row plots. [AA Urbanisation]

Luanda - The director of planning and urban management of Luanda Province, Hélder José, said on Tuesday that the illegal occupation of state-reserved land will hamper the implementation of the government's housing programme.

Speaking to ANGOP, the official considered that is necessary people's immediate exit from the areas designed for social housing so that the process of cleaning and urbanisation of the referred zones be carried out.

According to Hélder José, the construction of houses is a process that will not finish soon since the process of population growth is ongoing, adding that they plan to grant the deprived communities the chance to acquire their own houses, or citizens can also write a letter requesting land for self construction.

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South Africa: Filthy Water in Informal Settlements Makes Squatters' Lives Hell - Because of the heavy winter rains there are puddles of dirty water in almost every informal settlement in Cape Town. When the sun comes out they drain away. [AA Urbanisation]

Namibia: City Squatters Get Another Reprieve - ILLEGAL squatters on Windhoek municipal property will remain safe from evictions for another month, after the High Court on Friday extended its suspension of the Squatters Proclamation of 1985. [AA Urbanisation]

Namibia: SPYL Slams Handling of Ongombo Squatters - THE Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) is not impressed with Government's handling of a group of squatters removed from the State-owned Ongombo West farm this past weekend. [AA Urbanisation]

Kenya: Squatters Chase Land Surveyors - Land surveyors took to their heels and had to be rescued by police after squatters on the land they had gone to demarcate in Mtwapa chased them away. [AA Urbanisation]

Namibia: Squatters Hit Back at Windhoek Municipality - A GROUP of illegal squatters living in Windhoek's Havana informal settlement, and who have since the beginning of the year been subjected to evictions and the demolitions of their makeshift homes, will today attempt to strike back against the municipality. [AA Urbanisation]

Kenya: Civil Servants Defy First Lady's Directive to Settle Squatters As State Loses Sh500 million - Taxpayers have lost more than Sh500 million in a settlement scheme initiated by First Lady Lucy Kibaki to settle squatters but which has turned into a gravy train for MPs and civil servants. [AA Urbanisation]

Namibia: Squatters Win High Court Appeal to Stay - ILLEGAL squatters living in Windhoek's Havana 6 settlement yesterday emerged victorious from the High Court, after appealing to have the Windhoek municipality's actions of evicting them and demolishing their shacks stopped. [AA Urbanisation]

Zimbabwe: Squatters Request Residential Stands - Close to 200 squatters in Gunhill, on the stretch of land bordered by the suburb, Borrowdale Race Course and Pockets Hill are requesting Harare City Council and the Government to allocate them residential stands while others want assistance to relocate to their rural homes. [AA Urbanisation]

Sierra Leone: Ministers Engage Squatters at Aberdeen Camp - Minister of lands, country planning and the environment Dr. Denis Sandy and deputy minister of health and sanitation Mohamed D. Koroma have made a joint visit to the former amputee camp on Aberdeen Road to address residents on the illegitimate use of the land. [AA Urbanisation]

Zambia: 82 Kitwe Families Thrown in Cold - EIGHTY-TWO families in Kitwe have been evicted from a farm where they were squatting and are currently spending nights in the cold. [AA Urbanisation]