IN the dark corners of just about every developing country, you will find a slum or two. These are residential areas with little or no regular water supply; little or no electricity; no wide access ...

To walk through Kibera is to enter a world of almost surreal poverty. Reputedly Africa’s largest slum, it’s home to an estimated one million people, all of whom live in shanties whose ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of ...

The devastating fires in the slums of South Africa's Johannesburg expose the deeper crisis of housing triggered by neoliberal policies. 200 working-class families in South Africa have been left ...

From Kawangware, Kibra took over. Same script. The biggest urban slum in Africa was fast leading with Covid-19 numbers. For slums, with Covid-19 infections, it almost looks like a competition.

Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) Founder and CEO Dr. Kennedy Odede has been awarded the 2024 Outstanding Humanitarian ...

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate ...

prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. This year is the hottest in history, with record ...