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Liberia set to secure ancestral land rights with long-awaited law

Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation 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 recognises customary land rights – the […]