Former residents from the waterfront settlement of Otodo Gbame in Lagos. They've been displaced and are now living in Makoko, another waterfront slum. At 5:30 a.m. on April 9, Salako Hunsa awoke to ...

Slum living is a common outgrowth of urban development, especially in developing parts of the world. A staggering 62% of the urban population of Sub-Saharan Africa resides in slums. In Enkanini, a ...

Why do slums co-exist with affluent neighbourhoods? Mukuru with South B, Kangemi with Loresho, Githogori with Runda, Mathare with Muthaiga, Deep Sea with Spring Valley? Other towns outside Nairobi ...

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, housing more than 250,000 of the 2.5 million slum dwellers in the city of 4 million. This story is the third in a five-part series about displacement and the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from ...

Kibra slum residents arrive for the collection of their keys to their new houses in Kibera Soweto East Zone 'A' , Nairobi County. [Elvis Ogina,Standard] Ongoing efforts by President William Ruto to ...

Women’s History Month comes every March, and groups, individuals, businesses and corporations are celebrating the contributions of women all over the world, as well as advocating for changing their ...

The BNP is likely to focus on messages that ensure homes for slum dwellers and security for all in Dhaka-17, from which party acting chairman Tarique Rahman is running.

There are some 863 million people globally who live in slums, without any access to water, electricity or a decent shelter to live in. Now, Techo, a nonprofit organization in Latin America and the ...