Uganda

The Church of Uganda launched a titling drive across all 39 dioceses, with more than 5,000 applications approved and fees subsidised from $800 to $106 per acre, as land crimes rose 67 per cent in a year.

The Church of Uganda launched a titling drive across all 39 dioceses, with more than 5,000 applications approved and fees subsidised from $800 to $106 per acre, as land crimes rose 67 per cent in a year.

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.

More than 100 families on Kampala’s Nsambya Housing Estate faced eviction after a 49-year lease expired and the Catholic archdiocese moved to redevelop, until a government minister stepped in and suspended the deadline.

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 Ugandan diocese’s allocation of church land to a lay leader for lock-up shops has been challenged by the local congregation, which says the diocese lacked authority and the wrong procedure was followed.

A Ugandan court cancelled Streams of Life Church’s title to two plots, found obtained by forged signatures and a caveat removed a minute before transfer, and ordered it to vacate and pay damages.