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Govt evolves system of resolving land conflicts
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The government is setting up sophisticated systems for surveying, issuing land titles and generally managing the land sector in efforts to end land disputes, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has said. He said absence of maps and official boundaries is the ...

The government has been asked to find a lasting solution to land-related disputes among Mbarali residents and an investor in the Kapunga Farm with recent reports showing that there is still a row between villagers and the management of the investment.

Opposition Civic United Front (CUF) said yesterday it was ready to work with the ruling CCM under a government of national unity.

>The government has admitted that the contribution of the mineral sector to the national economy was still minimal and that mineral smuggling was still a major problem despite efforts to try and end it.

The minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, has said small-scale miners should be allowed to take over idle mining sites if the big investors are dragging their feet.

>The government has since 2010 revoked licences granted to 332 miners after the latter violated relevant terms and conditions. The same fate awaits 150 other licences.

The government said yesterday that it had not banned the smoking of shisha, a fruit-scented tobacco often smoked through an ornate water pipe as a social activity.