AllAfrica News: Land and Rural Issues

[New Times] Last week, the government released new guidelines on homemade beverages, requiring village approval for those who make them.

[Botswana Daily News] Tsabong -- This year's Kokotsha July Derby has been praised as a premier example of how rural communities can drive their own economic and social development.

[Nile Post] My first real lesson in digital literacy came not in a classroom, but while applying for graduate studies abroad.

[FrontPageAfrica] Weah Village -- Residents of Weah Village, a growing community of more than 400 people located along the Harper Highway in District 1, Maryland County, are pleading with the Government of Liberia, Representative P. Mike Jurry, and humanitarian organizations to urgently provide safe drinking water, saying they have been forced to rely on a nearby creek for years.

[New Times] The National Land Authority (NLA), in collaboration with the Real Estate Professionals' Association of Rwanda (RWAREB), the Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA), and other stakeholders, is finalising a legal framework to regulate real estate brokerage and property management.