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The District Council of Grand Port, seated at Rose Belle, serves the villages of south-eastern Mauritius across roughly 260 km². The district takes its name from Old Grand Port, the island's first Dutch landing site, and its historic coastal town of Mahébourg looks out over Grand Port Bay. It is a district of striking natural … Continued
Overstrand stretches along the Western Cape coast between the Kogelberg mountains and Cape Agulhas, taking in the towns of Hangklip–Kleinmond, Greater Hermanus, Stanford and Greater Gansbaai. Its seat, Hermanus, is world-renowned for land-based southern right whale watching, and the municipality's economy rests on tourism, agriculture, fishing and a growing small-business and services sector. The area … Continued
Masaka City lies in Uganda's Buganda Region, roughly 130 km south-west of Kampala and close to the Equator, on the trans-African corridor linking Uganda to Tanzania, Rwanda and the DRC. Granted city status in July 2020, it is organised into three divisions — Katwe-Butego, Kimaanya-Kyabakuza and Nyendo-Mukungwe. Long a coffee and agricultural trading hub for … Continued
Boane sits on the left bank of the Umbeluzi River in Maputo Province, within the capital's wider metropolitan area. Raised to town status in 1987 and constituted as a municipality in 2013 under Mozambique's decentralisation reforms, it is served by a station on the Goba railway and anchored economically by the Beleluane industrial park alongside … Continued
Sarh stands on the Chari River in Chad's well-watered south, roughly 560 km south-east of N'Djamena, and is the country's third-largest city as well as capital of the Moyen-Chari province. Founded in the colonial era as Fort-Archambault and renamed in 1972 for the Sara people, it is a centre of Chad's cotton industry and an … Continued
Commune III occupies the left bank of the Niger in central Bamako and holds much of the capital's administrative and commercial heart, including the Centre Commercial and the Koulouba and Point G heights. Created by ordinance in 1978, it comprises 20 quartiers and is among the densest parts of the city, its markets and central … Continued
*Source: Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics updated on January 1, 2025 We proudly recognise Sharm El-Sheikh as the first Egyptian city acknowledged for its efforts in urban sustainability and climate resilience through the ICLEI Global Network for Sustainable Cities. Many may associate this achievement with COP27, but I see its origins going back … Continued
