{"id":53546,"date":"2023-11-30T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs"},"modified":"2023-11-30T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:48:10","slug":"rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs","title":{"rendered":"Rampant selling of land to foreigners worries chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Traditional Authority (TA) Mtema of Lilongwe has expressed concern over the tendency by some people in his area who are selling customary land to foreigners despite efforts made to terminate it.<\/p>\n<p>Mtema made the sentiments Thursday during land registration sensitisation campaign organised by Ministry of Lands with support from Centre for Environmental Policy for Advocacy (CEPA).<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is aimed at sensitising land rights and restricting people from selling customary land. Mtema was concerned with the rate at which people are selling land in Lilongwe Rural West saying the practice poses a great danger to the future generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foreigners are coming with different tricks to take our land. I urge you to safeguard it because if we continue selling our land we will end up being slaves in our own country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Lands Senior Lands Officer, Harris Kunchulesi, said the ministry has embarked on land awareness campaigns in the district in order to reduce the tendency of selling land to foreigners. The new amended Land Law of 2022 is giving ownership of land to Malawians. Reported by Harold Mtepatepa<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Traditional Authority (TA) Mtema of Lilongwe has expressed concern over the tendency by some people in his area who are selling customary land to foreigners despite efforts made to terminate it. Mtema made the sentiments Thursday during land registration sensitisation campaign organised by Ministry of Lands with support from Centre for Environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,1247,928,251,234],"class_list":["post-53546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-chiefs","tag-land","tag-lilongwe","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rampant selling of land to foreigners worries chiefs - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Traditional Authority (TA) Mtema of Lilongwe has expressed concern over the tendency by some people in his area who are ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rampant selling of land to foreigners worries chiefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Traditional Authority (TA) Mtema of Lilongwe has expressed concern over the tendency by some people in his area who are ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-30T19:36:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-30T19:48:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1701360988.94859.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"324\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rampant selling of land to foreigners worries chiefs\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-30T19:36:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-30T19:48:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs\"},\"wordCount\":202,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1701360988.94859.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"chiefs\",\"Land\",\"Lilongwe\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rampant-selling-of-land-to-foreigners-worries-chiefs\",\"name\":\"Rampant selling of land to foreigners worries chiefs - 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