Posted to the web 10 October 2008 George Kagame Kigali The government yesterday launched the first phase of land tenure reforms stating that the new changes in land ownership and management would increase investments throughout the country. The Minister of Lands, Environment, Forests, Water and Mines, Stanislas Kamanzi, said that the reforms are part of Rwanda's mechanisms for registering land titles and its proper use to ensure long equity in land ownership among all Rwandans. The reforms are partly funded by government and Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) which has been funding land reforms in the country since 2002 spending about Frw 3 billion so far. The reforms started off with the passing of the National Land Policy in 2004 but was later amended at the launch of the Organic Land Law in 2005....
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