{"id":11278,"date":"2014-04-07T02:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2014-04-07T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:25:00","slug":"president-mahama-to-address-un-urban-forum-on-urbanisation-in-africa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11278","title":{"rendered":"Mahama to address UN urban forum on urbanisation in Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11279\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mahaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11279\" alt=\"President John Mahama in a Q&amp;A session after his presentation at the LSE Africa Summit \" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mahaa.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mahaa.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mahaa-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President John Mahama in a Q&amp;A session after his presentation at the LSE Africa Summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in the Colombian city of Medellin for the UN sponsored 7th session of the World Urban Forum, where he will be a special guest of honour and keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum, under the theme, &#8220;Urban Equity in Development &#8211; Cities for Life&#8221;, is organised by UN Habitat and hosted by the Colombian Government to explore among other issues rapid urbanisation across the world.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama will join his Colombian host, President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday, 7th April 2014 for the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>As a champion of Africa&#8217;s urbanization agenda, President Mahama will address the Forum on the challenges of rapidly growing cities, and how to prepare for the rapid urbanization of the African continent in particular.<\/p>\n<p>At the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Mahama on behalf of UN-Habitat led fruitful discussions and debate on Africa&#8217;s rapid urbanization, at a side meeting with other African leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From : Flagstaff House Communications Bureau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in the Colombian city of Medellin for the UN sponsored 7th session of the World Urban Forum, where he will be a special guest of honour and keynote speaker. The Forum, under the theme, &#8220;Urban Equity in Development &#8211; Cities for Life&#8221;, is organised by UN Habitat and hosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,17],"class_list":["post-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}