As food prices spike, urban areas burgeon and crops fail, researchers have found promise in the most unlikely of places – cities. Experts have tapped urban agriculture as a ... Read more »
Students from a university in Cape Town set out to turn a temporary shack into an "iShack" - a shack that is warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Read more »
The city's mayor has apologised for the failure of a janitorial service aimed to improve sanitation in informal settlements after it was revealed that the project was hardly ... Read more »
Lawmaker, Lanre Ogunyemi, has called on Nigeria's government to design programmes that will ensure that people living in slums are given a new life. Thousands were left homeless ... Read more »
Citizens living in informal settlements, which are prone to fire, can now benefit from a new insurance plan that allows them to insure their household goods. Read more »
Another school goes up in flames. About 120 pupils of Utawala Academy in Embakasi escaped narrowly when a fire gutted down the boys' dormitory. This is the most recent incident ... Read more »
Adamawa authorities are appealing for assistance from the federal government as at least twenty bodies are recovered in the wake of devastating floods in the region. Read more »
With inflation slowing and entrepreneurs benefiting from business support, Tanzania is on the rise economically. Read more »
The company behind the construction of a U.S.$100 million mall has argued that the construction site is not wetland after reports of complaints from residents. Read more »
While one group of residents celebrated, another group of people protested as minister for housing handed over 300 housing units to a community in Cape Town. Read more »
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