Angola: Towards a fair land law

The 'grace period' created by the 2002 cease-fire agreement in Angola, has been disappearing in recent months. Two different kinds of land conflicts have been increasing in recent years: occupation by powerful people of high quality land held by rural communities with good access to water; and evictions of the urban poor from the areas where they have settled in Luanda. Those in power, NGOs believe, seem to want to acquire assets urgently and to settle legal matters before the next elections. This is according to an article in the June edition of the Independent Land Newsletter.