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Annan deplores lack of leadership on climate change
	Nairobi, 16 Nov 06 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a packed convention hall at the UN climate change conference on Wednesday that there was a “frightening” lack of leadership on the threats posed by climate change.


Report shows urban slum dwellers most vulnerable to floods
	Nairobi, Kenya, 14 Nov 06 Cities in Africa are facing a threat occasioned by floods caused by climate change, according to a new study this week by an international non-governmental organization.


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.


Mrs. Tibaijuka addresses International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development
	Nanning, 11 Nov 05 UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Friday addressed the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development with a call for better welfare as a means to achieving sustainable urban development.


Striving for more city parks, sports facilities
	Cologne, 2 Nov 05 UN-HABITAT is teaming up with the International Association of Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) to push for more parks, sports facilities and urban recreational spaces in towns and cities around the world.


Progress on good governance in Somaliland
	Hargeisa, 25 May 05 The Ministry of Interior has said that the level of conflict within city councils has decreased as they move towards improving services and infrastructure in their districts following a recent urban forum.


Joining forces for decent sanitation
	Nairobi, 5 May 05 With the potential for food crops being contaminated by human waste, the seminar was told how bamboo, a fast growing non-food crop with many uses thrived on human waste fertilizer.


Mrs. Tibaijuka elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
	Stockholm, 23 Feb 05 The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry has elected UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, as one of its eight foreign members.


Urban Poverty Rampant in Africa and Asia – Tibaijuka
	New York, 14 Feb 05 UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka last week put a strong case for the urban poor in Africa and Asia, saying that the two continents continued to have higher numbers of people being added to cities than any other region of the world.

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