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