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Monarch location 'overcrowded and filthy'

Francistown Mayor Gaone Majere
Francistown Mayor Gaone Majere

FRANCISTOWN: Monarch location is grappling with overcrowding and poor sanitation conditions, according to findings from a United Nationals Habitat Participatory Slums Upgrading Programme (PSUP) report.

The survey results were shared by Francistown city mayor Gaone Majere in his address during full council yesterday (Monday). He stated that the council, in partnership with UN Habitat, Department of Town and Country Planning, and Botswana Homeless and Poor People’s Federation has completed Monarch enumeration exercise and profiling through PSUP. The mayor that PSUP aims to improve poor structural quality of housing, overcrowding, inadequate access to safe water, inadequate access to sanitation, other infrastructure and unsecure residential status within cities.

He indicated that a total of 1,359 households participated in the survey of which 64% were females and 36% males.

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