In its centennial year, the Rockefeller Foundation launched an initiative to encourage and support cities around the world to prepare for the shocks and stresses of today's ... Read more »
Thousands of residents in Harare and surrounding areas are facing eviction from their homes as local authorities embark on an operation to demolish all illegal structures. Read more »
Kibera slum is situated five kilometres outside Nairobi, Kenya, and is the biggest slum in Africa with approximately one million people living there. For Margaret Atieno Ochieng, ... Read more »
The Gross Domestic Product has risen by 25 percent, lifting the country's average per capita income to U.S. $1,246. Read more »
IRIN looks at some of the successes, failures and pitfalls in resilience planning. Read more »
A ministerial inquiry into the evictions at Nomzamo near Lwandle in the Strand has been established after residents were forced off land belonging to the South African National ... Read more »
North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo has said that more than R20 million has been set aside to address a water crisis in Bloemhof after three infants died from alleged e.coli ... Read more »
The South African National Roads Agency Limited has said that former residents of an informal settlement in Strand will be relocated after allegedly invading land. Read more »
The South African National Roads Agency has enforced a court interdict granted by the Cape High Court and forcibly evicted residents of an informal settlement in Lwandle near ... Read more »
Developing viable, livable and resilient cities is increasingly seen as being of critical importance to giving opportunities to Africans to improve their lives.In a series on how ... Read more »
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