{"id":234278,"date":"2026-05-24T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/madagascar-govt-to-compensate-absentee-landlords-in-tana-river-issue-title-deeds-to-squatters-ruto\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:32:04","slug":"madagascar-govt-to-compensate-absentee-landlords-in-tana-river-issue-title-deeds-to-squatters-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/madagascar-govt-to-compensate-absentee-landlords-in-tana-river-issue-title-deeds-to-squatters-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar: Govt to Compensate Absentee Landlords in Tana River, Issue Title Deeds to Squatters &#8211; Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mombasa \u2014 President William Ruto has announced that the government will compensate absentee landlords in Tana River County as part of a plan aimed at resolving long-standing land ownership disputes affecting squatters in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking during his development tour of the county, President Ruto said the government would facilitate the transfer of ownership documents to thousands of residents who have occupied the land for years without legal title deeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Head of State said the move is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605220432.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mombasa \u2014 President William Ruto has announced that the government will compensate absentee landlords in Tana River County as part of a plan aimed at resolving long-standing land ownership disputes affecting squatters in the region. Speaking during his development tour of the county, President Ruto said the government would facilitate the transfer of ownership documents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":234279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[54463,258,256,5077,18737,4357,8922,430,22595,7973,257,7263,11238,254,9591,12131,6675],"class_list":["post-234278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-absentee","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-compensate","tag-deeds","tag-govt","tag-issue","tag-kenya-news","tag-landlords","tag-madagascar","tag-news","tag-river","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squatters","tag-tana","tag-title"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}