Since apartheid ended and Namibia won its independence in 1990, Windhoek has burgeoned as rural people have poured into the city in search of jobs and money. Recent statistics ... Read more »
Light will be the buzz word next year. The UN has proclaimed 2015 the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, with the goal of raising global awareness of how ... Read more »
A project that supplies renewable, solar powered lighting helps Liberia's capital city supplement its limited, diesel-powered grid electricity. The Liberian Energy Project supplies ... Read more »
Africa's urban population is expected to increase from 40 percent to 56 percent by 2050. 90 percent of the world urban population increase will be concentrated in Asia and Africa. ... Read more »
The Kenyan government is developing Konza city as a 5,000-acre public-private partnership and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) hub, raising hopes that the project ... Read more »
CCTV footage of a crowd catching two toddlers thrown by their mother to escape a burning building was posted to YouTube. Read more »
Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, is a city under siege from multiple shocks. Innovative uses of mobile technology - and a programme to support girls - are lifelines in the ... Read more »
Extreme weather and torrential rains are increasing flooding across Africa, say climate-change scientists and development planners. Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, is implementing a ... Read more »
Poor sanitation and lousy maps contribute to the persistent crime problems facing residents of Cape Town's Khayelitsha and other impoverished communities across Africa. These ... Read more »
As the world's urban areas inevitably expand, growing both in size and in population, they will also need to transition into better planned and better managed environments or risk ... Read more »
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