This Newsletter seeks to give an overview of current land reform issues in the Horn, East and Central Africa. 'Eastern Africa' here covers Burundi, Eastern DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. This issue is the second edition of the Independent Land Newsletter; the earlier one centred on Southern Africa, was circulated in June 2004. Compilation of this issue has come from voluntary contributions from land experts mainly based in the respective countries.