Inhabitants of Africa
South Africa, Relocation, relocation, demonstration
Abalahli march on Dan Plato 20th july 2009 (© Sydelle Willow Smith)
The South Africa's largest shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) have been fighting over the issue of housing rights for 15 years now. Now a representative is in London to promote te movement
Port Harcourt, UN-Habitat for an immediate moratorium on demolitions and forced evictions
While the River State Governor seems to have engaged a final battle to destroy Njemanze and Abonnema Wharf waterfronts despite the Federal High Court of Nigeria made an Order restraining him from carrying out any demolition in the waterfronts, UN-Habitat has spread the Report on the fact-finding mission to Port Harcourt (12-16 March 2009). No formal comments were received from the Rivers State Government, but our sources confirm that they had received the Report and was aware of UN-HABITAT's assessment of the evictions in Port Harcourt.
South Africa, Oppose the 'Slums Act'
No Land, No House, No Vote, South Africa
25 and 26 February 2009The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has passed legislation [1] affecting the lives and rights of shack dwellers. The shack-dweller movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, has challenged this law and will take their case to the Constitutional Court. But after a provincial judge ruled against the movement's first challenge, an article by the head of media services for the Department of Housing (published in the Witness newspaper on 24th February 2009) said:
Mozambico: the season of future
reportage
by Francesco Fantini
This book is a collection of notes taken during a journey to Mozambique that I made with Gil, a former homeless boy who, like many others, managed to take his place in society again thanks to the help of international solidarity that welcomed him and allowed him to study.
Liberia: ‘We Will Use Our Children as Shields’
HARBEL, Liberia, Dec 9 (IPS) - "We are not just going to let a bulldozer come in and demolish our land. If possible we will use our children as shields. We will have to do that," exclaims Eric Lavella, a middle-aged Firestone factory worker living in the heart of Liberia’s largest rubber plantation, 60 kilometres south of the capital Monrovia. By Rebecca Murray
Slum houses one of 'most lucrative' ventures in city
By GATONYE GATHURA, December 22 2008, Daily Nation
Landlord can recover cost of building after 10 months, says new report by UN-Habitat.
L'Afrique se rend chez Obama
Cairo, people remain under the wreck
On Saturday (6/9/2008), a lump of rock collapsed on a number of houses of the poor people in Al-Doweqa area related to Mansheyet Nasser Section (West of Cairo). Until now the result of the disaster is 20 dead and 35 injured people; however, moreover 500 people still under wreck.
Forced evictions reach crisis levels
Research conducted by Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reveals that the practice of forced evictions has reached epidemic proportions in Africa.