Liberia: Liberia Set to Secure Ancestral Land Rights with Long-Awaited Law

Aug 27, 2018 | Nellie Peyton, Reuters
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Liberia is on the verge of passing a long-awaited land rights law that would help prevent foreign companies uprooting communities to make way for mining and logging, activists said. Liberia’s Senate passed the Land Rights Bill last week after four years of debate. The law recognizes customary land rights - the rights of communities to ancestral land - as equal to private ownership, yet will be tough to implement, experts say.