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UN-HABITAT and MASHAV hold first joint urban training seminar  
Nanyuki, Kenya, 31 May 06
Some 26 participants last week successfully took part in a Training of Trainers workshop as part of a joint initiative between UN-HABITAT and the Centre for International Cooperation of Israel (MASHAV).
UN-HABITAT and Action Aid sign cooperation agreement  
Nairobi, 29 May 06
UN-HABITAT and the international development agency Action Aid last Friday signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement which will see the two organisations collaborate in wide ranging areas of mutual concern.
India joins UN-HABITAT to establish new Asia-Pacific housing forum  
Nairobi, 29 May 06
India has signed a landmark agreement with UN-HABITAT to host the inaugural meeting of a new housing development forum for the rapidly urbanising Asia-Pacific region, which is home to the world’s largest number of slum dwellers.
A new UN-HABITAT office for Eastern Europe in Warsaw  
Warsaw, 26 May 06
UN-HABITAT will open a new East European regional office in the Polish capital Warsaw 1 June with funding from the Polish government, the agency announced on Friday.
Slum dwellers and governments in landmark meeting on low-cost housing  
Cape Town, 25 May 06
At the behest of the recently concluded African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD), homeless people and slum dwellers from around the world gathered in Cape Town last week to engage governments in talks to improve their plight.
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.
New Somalia housing project launched with Japanese funding  
Garowe, Puntland, 18 May 06
Top officials led by the Vice-President of Puntland, Mr. Hassan Dahir Mohamoud, on Saturday opened a new housing project for the urban poor and people displaced by conflict.
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.
Professor John Friedmann wins first ‘UN-HABITAT Lecture’ award  
Nairobi, 15 May 06
Professor John Friedmann has won the first United Nations Human Settlements Lecture award. The recently launched UN-HABITAT Lecture series is organized through the Global Research Network on Human Settlements (HS-Net), an international board that advises UN-HABITAT on its Global Report on Human Settlements.
Tibaijuka briefs United States Senate on urbanization in Africa  
Washington DC, 8 May 06
UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, last week told a special panel of the United States Senate that 72 percent of the urban populations in Africa still live in slums and informal settlements.
 
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