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Slum dwellers and governments in landmark meeting on low-cost housing  
Cape Town, 25 May 06
At the behest of the recently concluded African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD), homeless people and slum dwellers from around the world gathered in Cape Town last week to engage governments in talks to improve their plight.
New Zambian and Portuguese envoys present credentials  
Nairobi, 23 May 06
They are the Zambian High Commissioner to Kenya, Lt. Gen. Solomon Levy Mumbi, and Mr. Luis Lorvão of Portugal, who is also his country’s Ambassador to Kenya.
Tibaijuka pleads for energy for the urban poor  
New York, 16 May 06
UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka said in a statement to the fourteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development in New York that poor people living in towns and cities around the world had benefited very little from conventional energy policies, with an estimated 2 billion forced to cut down trees and use other traditional fuels for cooking because they had no electricity.
Pomp and dance mark a Hip Hop MDG event  
Nairobi, 2 May 06
All roads in Nairobi last Saturday led to the African Cultural Research and Education Foundation (ACREF) centre in Baba Dogo estate where a unique hip hop concert aimed at educating Kenyan youth on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was held.
UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director addresses Commonwealth meeting on Africa’s urbanisation crisis  
Kampala, 2 May 06
UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Thursday told a Commonwealth symposium on local democracy that Africa was facing a considerable urbanisation crisis and that administrative powers had to be better decentralised to tackle the problem.
Chinese President Hu visits UN headquarters in Africa  
Nairobi, 28 Apr 06
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday visited the United Nations Headquarters in Nairobi during a state visit to Kenya marking the last leg of a five-nation tour to the United States, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Nigeria.
Madagascar launches new drive to upgrade urban settlements  
Antananarivo, 20 Apr 06
Prime Minister Jacques Sylla of Madagascar has launched a national programme to upgrade informal settlements and prepare sound urban development with the support of UN-HABITAT and the United Nations Development Programme.
UN-HABITAT teams up with India for better water and sanitation  
Ahmedabad, India, 14 Apr 06
A two-day roundtable meeting between UN-HABITAT and the Centre for Environment Education in India concluded in Ahmedabad last week with calls for greater cooperation between the two institutions in the area of sanitation.
UN-HABITAT bestows Special Citation on King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden  
Nairobi, 27 Mar 06
Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, on Monday presented King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with a Special Citation in this year’s UN-HABITAT Scroll of Honour Award for “his tireless campaigning to promote an environmentally sustainable human habitat”.
UN-HABITAT launches its second global report on water and sanitation  
Mexico, 27 Mar 06
UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Sunday launched the agency's second Global Report on Water and Sanitation with a warning that the projected increase of urban dwellers will have far reaching implications on water and sanitation provision and efforts must be stepped up to meet this challenge.
 
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