Governments must act aggressively to house two billion more people who will be living in cities in 25 years, according to estimates in a UN report released yesterday.

AN envoy for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew to Zimbabwe to investigate a so-called urban renewal campaign that has destroyed the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans.

President Robert Mugabe’s government is winding up a so-called urban renewal campaign that has destroyed the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans, a State-run newspaper reported today, hours before the arrival of a UN envoy to investigate the drive.