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The Special African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD) will be held at the UN-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi from April 3-4, 2006. The theme of the conference is, Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Strategies for the Realization of the Millennium Review Summit Commitment on Slums. It reflects the political will in Africa to address one of the world’s greatest shelter problems: In sub-Saharan Africa, 72 percent of urban dwellers (187 million people) live in slums. They constitute 20 percent of the global slum population. In Goal 7, Target 11, world leaders have committed themselves – “to achieve significant improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers” by the year 2020.
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