Topic: Anna Tibaijuka

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki urged African governments to tackle food production issues related to rapid population growth and urbanization.

A U.N. report released Friday says urban slum dwellers in developing countries are as badly off if not worse than their rural counterparts.

The United Nations said Monday without investment the world's cities will be unable to meet the need of adequate housing for the growing numbers of urban poor.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Friday condemned forced evictions in Zimbabwe as "profoundly distressing" and a "catastrophic injustice."

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is becoming "increasingly concerned" about housing evictions and demolitions in Zimbabwe, his office says.

The United Nations special envoy to Zimbabwe looking into evictions has extended her visit to the southern African country until Friday.

A U.N. special envoy to Zimbabwe has been visiting with some of the 200,000 people who have been evicted from illegal housing.

As many as 4,000 Zimbabweans are dying every week from starvation and AIDS as part of leader Robert Mugabe's forced relocation of poor people to the bush.