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		</div><p>Pope Francis is visiting a slum in Nairobi to press for adequate and dignified housing for society’s most marginal, especially in burgeoning megacities like the Kenyan capital.</p>
<p>Francis frequently insists on the need for the three “Ls” – land, labour and lodging – and today is expected to focus on housing as a critical issue facing the world amid rapid urbanisation that is helping to upset Earth’s delicate ecological balance.</p>
<p>Kangemi is one of 11 slums dotting Nairobi, East Africa’s largest city. The shanty itself has about 50,000 residents living without basic sanitation.</p>
<p>Most of the capital’s slums comprise a maze of single-room mud structures with iron-sheet roofing or cramped, high-rise buildings.</p>
<p>Francis referred to the problem of urban shanties in his speech to the African UN headquarters on Thursday.</p>
<p>He said everyone has a basic right to “dignified living conditions,” and that the views of local residents must be taken into account when urban planners are designing new construction.</p>
<p>“This will help eliminate the many instances of inequality and pockets of urban poverty, which are not simply economic but also, and above all, social and environmental,” he said.</p>
<p>The message was keenly felt because the UN Habitat programme, which seeks to promote adequate and environmentally sustainable housing, is based in Nairobi.</p>
<p>After the visit to Kangemi, the pope is scheduled to meet young Kenyans and hear of their problems with violence and simply trying to live their lives as Christians at a time of Islamic extremism.</p>
<p>Following the encounter, Francis heads to Uganda for the second leg of his trip, where he will honour the country’s Anglican and Catholic martyrs.</p>
<p>On Sunday, he is due to arrive in the Central African Republic, the most dangerous leg of the pilgrimage given the conflict between Christians and Muslims.</p>
<p>The Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi, said that plans had not changed and the Bangui leg of the trip was still on.</p>
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