Three people died when a rain-weakened school building in Accra New Town, used by a church despite repeated orders to stop and the arrest of its pastor, collapsed during a Sunday service, Accra’s mayor said.

Land grabbers have taken over more than 200 acres of a Ugandan Anglican diocese’s 425-acre estate, subdividing plots and selling them at night so buyers can build before the church can act.

Mass demolitions in Lagos’ Makoko waterfront community displaced more than 40,000 people, according to UN estimates, and the Methodist Church Makoko opened its doors to shelter more than 40 displaced residents.

Churches and a mosque in Nairobi’s Makongeni Estate were demolished or ordered out to make way for a Kenyan government affordable-housing project, with one pastor saying his church had invested 6 million shillings and asking for three months to relocate.

A Lagos church demolished during a land case, with shops built on the site two days later, has won a court order telling the local council to vacate the property and stop developing it.

A Redeemed Christian Church of God parish in Somolu, Lagos, was ordered to demolish its worship centre within seven days after a neighbouring building under construction collapsed onto it and officials declared it distressed.

Uganda’s Mbale Diocese is seeking to recover cathedral land occupied by a garage since the 1970s, with more than 25,000 mechanics to be relocated to a 50-acre site so it can build a Jubilee House.

A Nairobi church hosting more than 80 orphans was demolished under an eviction order that its archbishop says covered a different plot, LR No. 60, about 100 plots away from the church’s land.

Ivory Coast’s Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, built for up to 1.5 billion French francs with a dome taller than St Peter’s, seats over 7,000 but draws only a few hundred worshippers.

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