{"id":184794,"date":"2024-11-17T22:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-worlds-largest-urban-development-forum-concludes-with-cairo-call-to-action\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T20:45:44","slug":"egypt-worlds-largest-urban-development-forum-concludes-with-cairo-call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-worlds-largest-urban-development-forum-concludes-with-cairo-call-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: World&#8217;s Largest Urban Development Forum Concludes With Cairo Call to Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The twelfth edition of the World Urban Forum wrapped up on Friday with the adoption of the Cairo Call to Action, after intense discussions focused on the global housing crisis and financing urbanization, all under the theme &#8220;It All Starts at Home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Ahead of the closing ceremony, <a href=\"https:\/\/new.unhabitat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN-Habitat<\/a> Executive Director, Anaclaudia Rossbach, emphasised the <a href=\"https:\/\/wuf.unhabitat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum<\/a>&#8216;s timely emphasis on local action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;Over half of the world&#8217;s population now resides in urban areas,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/webtv.un.org\/en\/asset\/k1i\/k1i9ztxscv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, as she highlighted the pivotal role of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411110025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twelfth edition of the World Urban Forum wrapped up on Friday with the adoption of the Cairo Call to Action, after intense discussions focused on the global housing crisis and financing urbanization, all under the theme &#8220;It All Starts at Home.&#8221; Ahead of the closing ceremony, UN-Habitat Executive Director, Anaclaudia Rossbach, emphasised the Forum&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":184795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6394,258,256,341,6880,6159,5989,4697,415,6284,10885,257,254,8010,7787],"class_list":["post-184794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-call","tag-concludes","tag-development","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-forum","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urban","tag-worlds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}