Angola: Land rights crucial to economic, agricultural recovery

In what has been described as an important step to cementing territorial rights, and thereby the country's agricultural and economic recovery, three rural communities in Angola's southern province of Huila will receive title to their land on Friday. Paolo Groppo, a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) official in the capital, Luanda, told IRIN that "we are concerned that community rights have not been protected so far" and that "it is clearly important for local communities to have their territorial rights recognised by the authorities".