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Poor nations must control booming cities: U.N. (Reuters)
Filed: April 17th 2007: World

Children play on the way home after school in Pumwani slums near Kenya's capital Nairobi, seen in the background, September 14, 2006. Poor nations must urgently plan sustainable growth for fast-growing cities, said the United Nations on Tuesday, as hundreds of delegates gathered to discuss urbanization in Nairobi, home to some of Africa's worst slums. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)Reuters - Poor nations must urgently plan
sustainable growth for fast-growing cities, said the United
Nations on Tuesday, as hundreds of delegates gathered to
discuss urbanization in Nairobi, home to some of Africa's worst
slums.

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