Urban growth in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is creating a growing need for land for housing and socio-economic activities. With the city running out of space, city dwellers are turning to the outskirts where land is still available. Numerous rural land changes are taking place in the Greater Ouaga continuum, which consists of the city of Ouagadougou and seven (07) surrounding rural municipalities. Land transactions are at the heart of the interplay of interests and powers, and of feelings of appropriation/expropriation. At the interface, conflicts are multiplying as a result of widespread land speculation. Urban projects initiated by the Government or private housing promoters dispossess stakeholders of their land, with or without compensation. As a result, the formal or informal reterritorialisation processes that (dis)mobilise them are based on a competitive fabric of spatial occupation. These practices harden social relations and call into question the dichotomous approach to rights in peri-urban areas, as opposed to the surrounding countryside. Disputes over land rights and the non-application of regulatory texts fuel land conflicts and give rise to various forms of social resistance. This situation raises questions about land management in the urban/rural continuum. The aim of this article is to analyse the forms of transformation of rural land tenure in Greater Ouaga, land conflicts, and the issues arising from them. The methodological approach will be based on a mixed socio-spatial approach combining qualitative and quantitative analyses based on documentary research, interviews, surveys, and field observations using appropriate tools such as guides, fact sheets, and satellite images. The data will be processed and analysed using geospatial tools, in particular, GIS and remote sensing. The results obtained will be discussed and suggestions made for better land management in the urban/rural continuum.