Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

Raging waters claim over 40 lives in Nairobi, Kigali, Kinshasa and Kampala during current ...

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos ...

one of the country's biggest and poorest slums, has a lot more to offer than just trash. "We realised when talking to people [there] that these were stories that shouldn't just remain in Payatas ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to regenerate the Otumara slum in the Ebute Meta area, marking a major step toward inclusive urban renewal. This was disclosed during a key ...

They insist the housing scheme is “not a slum landlord project” and will “serve the community”. Planning agent for the firm Jim Godwin explained they have been working with Gravesham ...

The blood-soaked bodies of a rag picker’s 29-year-old wife and 5-year-old son were found in a slum under Ayodhya city police station limits on Saturday. Police suspected that the ragpicker ...

Asserting it is her regime's duty to ensure that no one remained hungry in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday said the government is planning to open 100 Atal canteens near slum ...

In Telangana, BJP will be taking up a three-day people contact campaign in slums and villages as part of its Foundation Day celebrations starting today. The ‘Gaon Chalo, Basti Chalo’ campaign aims at ...