Kenyan police officers face off with anti-tax protesters outside the Kenyan parliament building in Nairobi on 25 June 2024.
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African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
A street vendor sells bananas in a town near Kilimanjaro.
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Urbanisation in India is causing Adivasi communities to lose connections to ancestral lands – and to traditional knowledge and belief systems. Urban Hinduisation plays a big role in this.
Polluting cooking fuels are still preferred in parts of Africa.
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Stephen Appiah Takyi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) e Owusu Amponsah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
The inability of city authorities to enforce land-use regulations has allowed people to carry out ecologically unfriendly activities along the water bodies.
A police officer fires teargas at protesters in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in July 2023.
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From lit-up orbs to bland office blocks, cities are full of buildings that people do or do not like. What really shapes how they live – for better or for worse – is urban planning.
Puddles can be valuable wildlife havens.
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Hellen Gitau, African Population and Health Research Center; Blessing Mberu, African Population and Health Research Center; Kanyiva Muindi, African Population and Health Research Center e Samuel Iddi, African Population and Health Research Center
The impact of housing quality extends beyond health to education and subsequent economic outcomes, particularly for children.
Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg.
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Kenya’s experienced fast population growth and urbanisation - this has brought about some big challenges.
Guineans living in Ivory Coast wait for their turn during a census on March 26, 2010 in Adjame, a popular district in Abidjan.
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