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A land, two buyers, who is the real owner? Focus on land in Africa
Buying land, building a house, investing the savings of a lifetime... and finding out that the plot is claimed by someone else. In Africa, land disputes raise key questions: how to verify that a seller is actually entitled to sell land? What is the difference between customary law, certification and land title? And how to avoid double sales and real estate fraud? In the Focus of the Journal de l'Afrique of this Saturday, 10 October, Fatimata Wane receives Pierre Djémis, international business lawyer and founder of P