In-depth: Tomorrow’s Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation

GLOBAL: Water and Health in the City

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A neighbourhood child looks down at Dakar's Canale 4, a channel meant for collecting rainwater

NAIROBI, 1 September 2007 (IRIN) -
SENEGAL: Dakar water channel poses potential health hazard

PAKISTAN: Contaminated water a threat to millions in Punjab

KENYA: Kibera, The Forgotten City

AFGHANISTAN: Traditional ecological sanitation system under pressure

NIGER: Migration benefits still seen to outweigh risks

KENYA: Water cuts leave slum residents ‘at risk’

KENYA: Bringing health services to Kibera's poor

NEPAL: Impoverished urban squatters face high risk of poor health

TOGO: Water crisis spreads to capital

ZIMBABWE: Greater centralisation threatens city's water supplies

LIBERIA: Lassa fever returns as health sector crumbles

GLOBAL: Health, environment threatened by future urban growth

GLOBAL: Microbes don’t know geography - WHO report

COMOROS: An uninvited wedding guest

KAZAKHSTAN: Alarm raised over deteriorating health of men

IRAQ: Insecurity and lack of funds prevent cleansing of polluted sites

WEST AFRICA: Meningitis survivors among disease’s victims

GLOBAL: Eliminating the “disease of the poorest of the poor”

ZAMBIA: Kabwe, Africa's most toxic city

PAKISTAN: Dengue threat lurks over Karachi

NIGER: Waterborne disease blights millions of lives

Tomorrow’s Crises Today. The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation

September 2007
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Publication

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Features

Poverty Goes to Town: How the growth of cities affects the urban poor

Drowning in Disaster

The Growth of Cities: a thousand monsters stir

Hostages to Governance: life for the city-bound poor

Urban Conflict - fighting for resources in the slums

Photogallery

Urbanisation

Film

Afghanistan - Returnees struggle to find shelter

Urbanization in Angola

Egypt - City of the Dead

Kenya - Slum Survivors

Pakistan - Ibrahim Haidery settlement in Karachi

Pakistan - Bangladeshi family living in Machar (Mosquito) colony

Yemen- Al-Mehwar slum

Frontlines

Water & Health in the City

Natural Disasters & the Environment

Sex in the City

Housing, Land and Governance

Employment & Food Security

Violence in the City

Interviews

Interview with Mike Davis, author of hard-hitting Planet of Slums (2006)

Interview with Helene Gayle, CARE International president and CEO

Interview with David Satterthwaite, former head and current chief researcher for IIED

Rasna Warah, writer of UN Habitat’s, “State of the World’s Cities 2006/7

Nairobi People’s Settlement Network Interview

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