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Satellite cities are mushrooming across the Greater Horn of East Africa (GHEA), in response to the very rapid and largely unplanned growth of its urban centers.

This article was originally drafted by the Center for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Africa is said be the last region in the world to undergo a demographic transition. […]

The Venue. Source: OKFN, CC-BY-2.0 When arriving at the venue for the Open Government Data Camp 2011 in Warsaw early in the morning, I wondered about the huge collection of old factories that are now used as an office center for smaller startups. The Camp itself was held in an […]

The state does not want to see mass sales of land plots by famers and wants to buy up at least 30% of the country’s farmland, Deputy Head of the State Agency for Land Resources of Ukraine, Mykola Kaliuzhny, has said. read more

The story is an example of how China’s booming economy, as well as lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, has also generated unrest. read more