Squatting in Liberia

[3] The government charged the squatters a US$20 annual fee, allegedly based on the 1957 Zoning Code; although this gave no actual legal rights to land, it did mark de facto tenure.

They were Christian and supported Charles Taylor's faction, whereas the houses they squatted were owned by Mandinka people who were Muslim and who fought for the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), so these differences created tensions over land ownership.

[7] From 2003 onwards, the local council has given squatters rights to people occupying privately owned land, and the mayor herself was squatting.

As of 2005, they were refusing to leave the site until the United Nations offered them retraining, and they were supporting themselves financially by illegally tapping rubber.

[10] In lower Margibi County, the residents of the 70-year-old informal settlement Unification Town received titles to their land in late 2020.