It focuses on the latest achievements of the Somalia Urban Development Programme: completion of the Municipal Authority Building in Garowe, training of the new councillors in Puntland, and property registration and taxation as a sustainable source of income for the Hargeisa municipality. Also in this number: joint effort of the international agencies to solve the problems of IDPs in Bosasso, UNICEF strategies to provide clean water to the Somali towns, and DFID support to the programme.