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GLOBAL: Articles on urban risk: housing, land and governance

NAIROBI, 18 September 2007 (IRIN In-Depth) -


  • SYRIA Squatters in capital struggle for basic services


  • ZIMBABWE A year after urban purge conditions for displaced still grim


  • UGANDA Gov't relocates 'beggar' pastoralists


  • LEBANON Government could do more to tackle child labour


  • SOUTH AFRICA Poor squatters make way for 2010 World Cup


  • KENYA Slum-dwellers to benefit from housing fund


  • AFRICA Urban population to double - UNFPA


  • SWAZILAND Moves to upgrade informal settlements


  • SOUTHERN AFRICA Regional leaders pulled up for "non-response" to Operation Murambatsvina


  • PAKISTAN Cities teem with homeless, vulnerable people


  • GLOBAL "Sustainable Urbanisation" key to fighting urban poverty


  • NIGERIA Demolition plans bring new ethnic twist to Port Harcourt conflict



  • GLOBAL Proper policies key to upgrading slums



  • IRAQ Drug abuse among children on the rise



  • ZIMBABWE Children left at home pay the price of migration


  • Julius Mwelu, 22, 'We are proud of who we are despite where we live'


  • EGYPT Locals help transform their shanty town


  • SOUTH AFRICA Winter freeze highlights homeless crisis


  • SWAZILAND AIDS triggers wave of urban homeless


  • IRAQ Displaced families fall victim to house sale scams


  • HEAR OUR VOICES "Why I attended the World Social Forum” - slum resident


  • DRC Government seeks help for 75,000 IDPs


  • CONGO Government responds to population growth concerns


  • TANZANIA High population growth threatens MDGs in Zanzibar


  • GUINEA Government stalls on probe into alleged abuses


  • ZIMBABWE Forced price cuts drive down production


  • ZIMBABWE Price controls backfire again


  • SOUTH AFRICA Local government minister dismisses claims of failed service delivery


  • LESOTHO Helpline allows children to report abuse


  • Benício Ofeni - "Since the war ended my life hasn't improved a lot"


  • KENYA Inspiring young people in slums


  • When our parents died, we were accused of sorcery


  • "I would like to become a doctor because I want to help the sick"


  • SYRIA New highway threatens livelihoods in historic Damascus bazaar


  • LIBERIA Donor fatigue threatening DDR process



Theme(s): (IRIN) Governance, (IRIN) Urban Risk

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