On solid ground: armed with land titles, Tanzania's slum dwellers tackle povertyFor Maria Mkwawa, the Tanzanian government’s decision to issue her with a formal land title to her home in January was a pleasant surprise.“It will help me in many ways,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It is currently focused on Dar es Salaam. As one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities, and home to about five million people, Dar es Salaam is rapidly urbanising. About 70 percent of its residents live in informal settlements without clean water and decent sanitation, according to UN-Habitat, the U.N. agency for urban development. Until recently, the government regularly demolished homes in informal settlements.

Source: Standard Digital February 06, 2019 11:15 UTC