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| Urbanization in Africa | | Last Updated 11/04/2009 16:46:00 |
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 | UN-HABITAT boosts Somaliland tax | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Geographic Information System (GIS) established in Har
geisa Municipality with technical assistance from
UN-HABITAT has helped to increase annual property tax revenues by 248 percent, f
rom US$169,062 in 2005 to
US$588,754 in 2008, the UN human settlement agency has said.
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| UN-Habitat warns of expanding slums in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations’ agency in charge of housing, UN-Habi
tat, has warned that the growth rate of slums in Nigeria and Africa in general p
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ses serious threats of diseases and environmental degradation, according to Mond
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y's edition of the Punch newspaper.
29/09/2008 full text... |
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| Libya allocates 100,000 title deeds | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Property department in the various
municipalities in Libya on Sunday started distributing 100,000 title
deeds to citizens, who have applied for houses, as part of
festivities marking the 38th anniversary of the 1st September Libyan
Revolution.
03/09/2007 full text... |
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| Libya signs contracts to build 10,472 housing units | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan housing projects implementation
Office, signed on Tuesday contracts for the construction of 10,042
housing units in Tripoli, Morzouk and Wadi Chati (south of the
country) for an overall cost of 1.177 billion Libyan dinars (1.250
Libyan dinar= USD1).
08/08/2007 full text... |
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| UN Habitat moves to clean up IDP camps in northern Uganda | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Northern Uganda (PANA) - With the security
situation improving in northern Uganda, the UN Habitat has began working
with thousands of homeward-bound internally displaced persons (IDPs) to
clean up the camps in which they sought refuge for years from the rebel
Lords Resistance Army (LRA), according to official sources.
03/07/2007 full text... |
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| Ministers endorse creation of African Housing Fund | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Housing and Urban Planning ministers from
across Africa and the world ended a week-long meeting here Friday
with the passing of a landmark resolution to establish an African
Housing Fund, to bolster the fight against growing slums in Africa.
20/04/2007 full text... |
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| Kibaki unveils low-cost housing scheme for urban poor | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Monday unveiled
a US$12 billion Kenya Slum Upgrading Strategy and announced the
formation of an infrastructure fund to help mobilise donor funds to
rollout low-cost housing initiatives in the country.
16/04/2007 full text... |
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| UN examines housing adequacy in South Africa | | Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The UN Special Rapporteur on
adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, is on an official visit to South
Africa to examine and report on the status of the realisation of the
right to adequate housing and other related rights in the country.
13/04/2007 full text... |
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| Chad gets IDA funding to expand urban infrastructure | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - More people in five Chadian cities will
over the next five years have access to potable water as the
municipalities bolster their financial and technical resources for
maintaining equipment and infrastructure with support from the World
Bank.
07/03/2007 full text... |
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| Burundi faces acute urbanisation problems | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi faces serious urbanisation
problem with 75% of its urban population concentrated in the
capital Bujumbura, a study by one the country's demographers,
Evariste Ngayimpenda, has shown.
03/10/2006 full text... |
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| African cities must tackle urbanisation | | Nairobi Kenya (PANA) , African cities must take charge of poverty
eradication goals with their administrations strengthened and
their independence granted to enable them tackle the growing
urbanisation challenges, officials said here Tuesday.
19/09/2006 full text... |
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| UN official urges Africa to take urbanisation seriously | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) requires the local governments and key stakeholders
to take the challenge of urbanization more seriously, Anna
Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the Nairobi-based UN
Settlement agency (UN-Habitat), said here Monday.
18/09/2006 full text... |
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| Spain to fund housing project in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania and Spain have signed
an agreement for a housing project in the Brakna and Gorgol
regions in the South of the country, a government statement
announced here Thursday.
08/06/2006 full text... |
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| Mali govt to build low-budget homes in Bamako | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Mali government is planning to build 566
low-budget houses in Bamako as part of a national policy to meet the
housing needs of middle and low income earners, an official statement
said on Friday.
27/05/2006 full text... |
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| Libyan municipalities to name executive staff | | Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Libyan municipalities' people's congresses on
Monday will name secretaries of their planning councils and of sectoral
people's
committees in line with the General People's Congress (GPC)'s directive
of 26 March. The GPC is the country's highest legislative body.
03/04/2006 full text... |
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| UN-Habitat moots new alliance with African cities | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN settlement body, UN-Habitat, said it
planned to strengthen its partnership with African cities through an
integrated strategy targeting cross-city associations, a senior UN-
Habitat official has said here.
18/03/2006 full text... |
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| Graft is undermining local govts' service delivery - Study | |
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's major cities and town administrations are
riddled with corruption, with residents having to bribe to get trade
licenses, water connections, sewerage services and access to housing
units controlled by the municipalities, a study conducted here shows.
03/03/2006 full text... |
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| Kenya moots new housing legislation | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya plans to introduce a new
legislation stipulating a proper co-ordination of the housing
sector to avert problems currently being experienced in urban
areas.
25/02/2006 full text... |
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| Frequent fires torment Kenyan slum dwellers | |
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyans may be celebrating the successful
lighting of dark alleys in slums and middle-income estates but the new
lighting system is now raising safety concerns among slum residents, who
fear electric-fault-induced fires and accidents could increase in their
communities.
30/12/2005 full text... |
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| Jan Egeland visits Zimbabwe over humanitarian issues | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The UN under-secretary general for
Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator on Monday
toured slum areas that the government destroyed last May in
Zimbabwe under a controversial clean-up campaign which drew sharp
international rebuke, including criticisms from the United
Nations.
05/12/2005 full text... |
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| Kenya's urban dwellers face acute water shortages | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's city residents are facing unprecedented
water shortages and threats of a strike only months after the country's
local authorities embraced World Bank-prescribed water and sewerage
privatisation policies.
29/11/2005 full text... |
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| East Africans explore affordable housing strategies | |
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Representatives of banks, ministries of finance,
land and housing in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania met in Kampala Thursday
with American and UN officials for the first sub-regional meeting devoted
to ways of promoting innovative financing for affordable housing.
25/11/2005 full text... |
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| UN-Habitat seeks solutions to urbanization crises | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - In an effort to find solutions to pressing
urbanisation problems facing major cities in the world, UN Settlement
body (UN-Habitat) plans to galvanise slum dwellers, government
officials,
city mayors and urbanization experts in a global debate, an official
has
revealed in Nairobi.
10/11/2005 full text... |
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| Annan redirects focus on MDGs | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has
called for the implementation of an urban and participatory
development targeting the poor and empowering women and men with
the means to manage their communities.
04/10/2005 full text... |
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| World to mark 'Habitat Day' Monday | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Member States of the United Nations will Monday
observe World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of human settlements,
the Nairobi-based UN Habitat said in a statement Sunday.
02/10/2005 full text... |
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| Benin adopts a national housing policy | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin has approved a national
housing policy aimed at facilitating access to decent
housing for the greater number of the country's
inhabitants, according to official sources in Cotonou
Tuesday.
27/09/2005 full text... |
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| UN-Habitat gears to redeem African cities | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - "At a time when people are on the move,
and already 50 percent of the world's population lives in urban
areas, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost
in the streets of our cities and towns."
This is the view of Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of the
UN-Habitat, charged by the world body to grapple with the
daunting challenges facing urban centres in the world.
19/09/2005 full text... |
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| UNEP organises massive global cleanup activities | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Millions of volunteers around the
world are Friday taking part in activities to clean up their
local parks, waterways, streets and forests in a bid to
promote a healthy environment and sustainable living.
16/09/2005 full text... |
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| Libya launches a 50,000-unit housing project | | Tajoura, Libya (PANA) - Libyan authorities have laid the
foundation stone of a 50,000-unit public housing scheme on a 755-
hectare surface area in Tajoura, an eastern suburb of Tripoli
The Libyan parliament decided to launch the project, whose
foundation stone was laid Saturday in a bid to provide Libyan
citizens with a decent shelter.
04/09/2005 full text... |
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| Harare rations water | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Friday began
rationing water due to dwindling supplies, the Zimbabwe National
Water Authority (ZINWA) announced.
02/09/2005 full text... |
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| Zimbabwe, UN agree on help for slum clearance victims | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The United Nations said Wednesday it
had worked out a framework agreement with the Zimbabwe government
over humanitarian assistance to be given to victims of a
controversial slum clearance programme undertaken by authorities
in July, which left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
31/08/2005 full text... |
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| Kenyan capital clears livestock off its streets | | Nairobi Kenya, (PANA) - Nairobi City Council officials have cleared
livestock from the Kenyan capital city in a new move aimed at enhancing
cleanliness, sanitation and easing traffic snarl-ups in a metropolitan
where animals prowled open fields, roads and side walks in search of
water and pasture.
30/08/2005 full text... |
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| Zimbabwe responds to damning UN report | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe Wednesday responded to a
damning United Nations report on its slum clearances, and said
the demolitions were meant to fight crime, eliminate health
hazards and to pave way for the provision of planned housing and
other infrastructure.
17/08/2005 full text... |
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| UN says 3 October is World Habitat Day | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN has designated the
first Monday of each October the World Habitat Day to
reflect on the state of human settlement in the
world, the world body said on Friday.
05/08/2005 full text... |
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| Firms plan to boost electricity supply in Lagos | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's State-run oil Corporation,
NNPC, and one of its joint venture partners, ChevronTexaco,
are to build a 780-megawatt (MW) power station in Ijede on
the outskirts of Lagos, the local press reported Tuesday.
02/08/2005 full text... |
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| ANC says it supports church efforts in Zimbabwe | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's ruling
African National Congress party has said it appreciated
and supported the efforts of the South African Council of
Churches (SACC) to provide humanitarian assistance to
Zimbabwe.
28/07/2005 full text... |
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| Cameroon to remove dwellers near Douala airport | | Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Various authorities in
Cameroon plan to remove 500,000 people from the
vicinity of Douala International Airport in order to
reduce the risk of an accident, an informed source
said on Tuesday in the economic capital.
26/07/2005 full text... |
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| UNICEF decries humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe | | Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund
(UNICEF) Tuesday renewed calls for an immediate end
to demolitions and evictions in Zimbabwe, saying more than
220,000 children had been made homeless, without access to
food, water or health care, and with tens of thousands out
of schools.
26/07/2005 full text... |
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| UN agencies prepare shelter for Tsunami-affected Somalis | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UNICEF and the UN Human Settlements
Programme (UN-Habitat) are working on a project to provide
shelter in August for over 2,400 people living in the Tsunami-
affected town of Hafun in northeastern Somalia, they affirmed in
a joint media release here Tuesday.
19/07/2005 full text... |
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| UN Habitat envoy to visit Zimbabwe's Bulawayo, other cities | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - United Nations Special Envoy probing
human settlements issues in Zimbabwe, Anna Tibaijuka
was scheduled to travel to Zimbabwe's second city of
Bulawayo in the next phase of her assessment of the
evictions of some 200,000 people in and around urban
areas of the country.
06/07/2005 full text... |
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| UN urges Africa to invest in agriculture | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A senior United Nations
official, James Morris, has called on African
governments to invest in agriculture to curb the
rural-urban migration, a major contributor to urban
poverty.
02/07/2005 full text... |
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| UN special envoy meets Mugabe over demolitions | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Anna Tibaijuka, a special envoy
of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sent to Zimbabwe to
assess the humanitarian impact of the country's
controversial clean up campaign, on Wednesday met
President Robert Mugabe and toured some areas in the
capital where illegal homes and informal markets were
destroyed.
29/06/2005 full text... |
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| ActionAid hails UN probe in Zimbabwe "cleanup" bid | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Africa branch of ActionAid
International, on Monday welcomed the appointment of Anna
Kajumulo Tibaijuka of UN-Habitat as Special Envoy for Human
Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe.
"We note that the urban eviction operation dubbed 'operation
remove the dirt' continues unabated. Hundreds of thousands of
Zimbabweans are without homes, livelihoods, and a fragile economy
is tittering at the brink of collapse."
"The announcement of a UN investigations into the urban evictions
is the first ray of hope in an otherwise tragic situation,"
ActionAid said in a statement here Monday.
27/06/2005 full text... |
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| Zimbabwe bans urban farming | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Pressing ahead with a controversial clean up
campaign in towns and cities inspite of local and international
criticism, authorities in Zimbabwe Wednesday banned urban farming which
has been a source of food for most poor families.
22/06/2005 full text... |
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| Arab scouts discuss environmental awareness | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Scouts from Tunisia, Morocco,
Egypt, Kuwait, Libya and Bahrain have ended their
discussions at the fifth Arab Scouts meeting on
environmental awareness held at the Arab Scouts
Organisation headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.
14/06/2005 full text... |
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| EU condemns Zimbabwe slum demolitions | |
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The European Union (EU) Sunday condemned
ongoing demolitions of shantytowns across Zimbabwe, and urged the
authorities to halt the campaign which has left thousands of people
homeless and exposed to the winter cold.
12/06/2005 full text... |
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| EU unhappy with Zimbabwe urban shanties clampdown | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) Friday condemned
the
Zimbabwean government's controversial crackdown on informal traders
and
illegal urban settlements that has left tens of thousands of
residents
homeless across the country.
10/06/2005 full text... |
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| Kenya earmarks $6.6mn for low-cost housing project | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government Wednesday announced the
setting up of a slum upgrading and low-income housing fund of 500 million
Kenya shillings (about $6.6 million) to finance the rollout of low-cost
housing units for slum dwellers.
08/06/2005 full text... |
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| Floods kill four, render 300 homeless in Kenya | | Nyanza, Kenya (PANA) - At least four persons were killed and
hundreds left homeless in western Kenya after flash floods caused
by torrential rains destroyed their homes last weekend, the
national disaster office confirmed here Tuesday.
24/05/2005 full text... |
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