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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 13 March 2021 -  UN-Habitat’s Executive Director, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, visited an informal settlement of Djikofé in Saaba Municipality on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

Accompanied by the Minister of Urban Planning, Housing and the City, Mr. Stanislas Bénéwendé Sankara and the UN Resident Coordinator, Ms. Metsi Makhetha, the Executive Director went to the unplanned area of ​​Djikofé, which has been chosen as a pilot area to start implementing the National Slum Upgrading Strategy.The urban renovation project will include concrete actions to regularise land tenure

The UN-Habitat Executive Director met the Mayor of Saaba Municipality, Mr. Joseph Dipama,  chatted with women at a community borehole and visited a vulnerable family.  

“The needs of the residents in Djikofé are enormous as basic social services are absent, there is high criminality at night due to lack of street lighting and accessibility is very difficult, especially during the rainy season, which also causes waterborne diseases such as malaria,” said Mr. Moussa Ouedraogo told the Executive Director.