"Cities without slums" handicapped by its censuses

Ben M'Sick aims to become a prefecture without slums in 2014. This was announced by Mustapha Ameur, acting governor of this prefecture of districts. According to him, the operations of demolishing shacks and relocating inhabitants are going well as the statistics attest. Indeed, between the months of February 2013 and 2014, 595 shacks were demolished, i.e. 69%, and 466 serviced land plots were distributed to 936 families. However, nothing seems won in advance. The files of the victims of the census operations still constitute a burden and risk seriously delaying the realisation of this ambition. Indeed, many are those who have qualified the census operation as dubious, notably that of 2010, because it was not based on objective criteria and its conduct was riddled with shortcomings. Particularly, in its phase known as the validation of results by local authorities. Thus, several people…