Conduct Prompt and Thorough Investigation; Ensure Accountability Two unknown assailants shot and killed housing rights activist Zweli ‘Khabazela’ Mkhize on February 12. Treasurer of the eNkanini branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a shack dwellers’ movement that has faced significant threats and violence from both state and non-state actors, Mkhize was killed while visiting a friend near…
Kayla EpsteinRockefeller Center, Grace Eliza GoodwinRockefeller Center and Sakshi Venkatraman Watch: Sliwa, Mamdani and Cuomo debate grocery bills, Trump and Gaza The three leading candidates for New York City mayor took the stage at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan on Thursday to make a case to lead America’s biggest city. They tangled over housing, Israel and…
Africa’s deepening housing crisis, estimated at more than 52 million units, is emerging as one of the continent’s most urgent barriers to achieving the African Union’s Agenda 2063 development blueprint, financial and development leaders warned Monday at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2025) in Algiers. The continent’s housing shortfall, experts say, now carries an estimated price…
Addis Ababa — Habitat for Humanity International has affirmed Ethiopia’s potential to be a model in unlocking its enormous housing assets and opportunities across Africa. Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford, who attended the high-level Panel Discussion on Housing in Ethiopia and across Africa this week in Addis Ababa, told ENA that Africa is…
