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Cairo's necropolis is not just a testament to Egypt's rich history, it's also the home of hundreds of poor families. Now large parts of the City of the Dead are to be sacrificed for a new highway.

This article is a collaboration between China Dialogue and the China Environment Forum’s Turning the Tide on Plastic Waste in Asia initiative.

The expected launch of land reform is dividing opinions. At a work meeting this month, the Minister of Land and Resources, Jiang Daming, said the central government would limit land supply in cities with more than five million residents. His words ignited a storm.To be fair, he spoke in the spirit of the resolution from the recent Third Plenum of the Communist Party’s

Every month, young women and girls in the villages of Nepal make their way into makeshift huts where they will reside for the week until their

Urbanization presents immense opportunities to accelerate progress towards our common development agenda 2030 and 2063.

The country often frames food waste as a moral failing. That doesn’t work when there’s no one around to judge.

African leaders and experts have called for tangible, practical and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing Africa's urban centers, presently characterized by unplanned and unregulated growth.

Neurofibromatosis has no cure and affects some 800,000 people in the country.

What is going on over at the UN Population Division? In response to The New Security Beat’s post on the UN’s sub-Saharan projections, Ed Carr of

New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI/NewsVoir): The real growth in India can only happen through urbanization which is a must for quantum economic jump and poverty reduction in the country, Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog said today during an interactive session around a range of policy issues, organized by Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI).