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Nairobi, 19 September 2022 – 78 per cent of Africa’s population commutes by foot and on bicycles every day, yet difficult, dangerous and uncomfortable conditions contribute to a rapid rise in the number of vehicles in cities and an increasing number of road fatalities. This has grave implications for people’s health and the environment: 261 pedestrians and 18 cyclists are killed every day on the roads, along with over 258,000 deaths annually as a result of air pollution. These findings ap...

Thanks to plentiful and abundant natural resources and significant population increases, Africa has enjoyed a period of dynamic growth in recent years. Yok

Building liveable and smart cities can only come from the backing of citizens as well as government master plans, a major conference in Singapore heard last week.

Ahram Online Cairo Governorate, in cooperation with the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), launched on Tuesday the first phase of the Cairo Bike Project in the streets of Downtown Cairo. Egypt launches Cairo Bike, establishes 5 stops in Downtown Cairo ahead of COP27 ( Photo Courtesy: Offical Facebook Page of...

AMMAN — Amman Mayor Yousef Shawarbeh on Wednesday participated in the fifth edition of the Local and Regional Governments Forum-Fostering the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals from the Local Level towards the 2023 SDG Summit, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The forum is currently being held at the UN headquarters in New York, on the occasion of the 2022

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The University of New Hampshire held five ceremonies this weekend, one for each of its five schools.

The first global initiative aimed at ending street homelessness has revealed key ingredients for success along with common systemic barriers, new research from Heriot-Watt University has found.The Institute of Global Homelessness’ (IGH) A Place to Ca

A debate to discuss how science and technology can boost Covid-19 recovery is to be held in the UN. The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conferen...