Urban slums Could overwhelm Africa -Bhc

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Africa must start looking at sustainable means of curbing the emergence of new and growth of existing slums or face a future problem of urban centres overshadowed by slums.

This was one of the key issues that emerged from a training session at the African Union Housing Finance (AUHF) conference in Gaborone last week.

According to Thupa Thupa, of the Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC), statistics presented and analysed during the training revealed that despite a slight decrease in the number of emerging slums in Africa, populations in urban areas continue to increase at a fast rate.

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