Africa: "No peace and prosperity on the rules of the strong"

The number of slum dwellers will double to nearly two billion by 2030. Cities overall will grow at a similarly explosive rate, reaching nearly five billion people by 2030 from 2.9 billion in 2001, according to UN-Habitat Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka as she launched "The State of the World's Cities" report. As well as highlighting a widening rich-poor gap, the report attacked the argument that unfettered trade is a sure route to wider developing-world prosperity and warned of a "race to the bottom" as companies seeking cheaper labour shift capital and jobs across borders.