Kinshasa: A fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has health workers rushing to stop transmission while the roll out of any potential vaccine is months away, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday….
Baku: Neighborhoods inherited from the colonial period in Gabon display a stark urban reality, where better-structured areas coexist with peripheral zones lacking essential infrastructure, Moukala Nguimbi Franck Gordan, a doctoral student at Jean Monn…
Baku: An event themed ‘NGO Forum: Global Partnerships and Decision-Making’ was held for the first time as part of the United Nations World Urban Forum (WUF13). Organized by the Azerbaijan State Agency for Support to NGOs, the forum focused on the role…
Baku: More than 60% of people displaced worldwide settle in cities rather than refugee camps, said Anna Soave, UN-Habitat Country Representative in Azerbaijan, APA-Economics reports from the World Urban Forum (WUF13) held in Baku.
According to Azer…
Baku: A special session themed ‘Cities at the Heart of Connectivity: Urban Reconstruction and Regional Cooperation’ was organized as part of the 13th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) held in Baku, on May 19. Speaking at the event, Azerbaijan’s…
Baku: “Currently, nearly 1 billion people do not have official housing registration, and this is a serious problem,” Aziza Akmouch, Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation a…
Baku: Azerbaijan is actively engaging with civil society institutions to restore and reconstruct mine-contaminated areas, as stated by Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Pr…
Adsea: Azerbaijan is witnessing a significant rise in the frequency of floods, with numbers increasing several times from the previous annual count of 10-20 incidents.
Extreme weather events such as floods, flash floods, and heavy rainfall are becom…
Baku: ‘The cities of the future will no longer be assessed by their size, but by their energy efficiency, technological advancement, and regional connectivity,’ said Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov, as he addressed the special session on…