Stephen Ochieng’ Nyandiare, a Kenyan man who rose from the informal settlements of Kisumu is set to receive a prestigious ...

Abiding by court rulings which warn against forced eviction. Lagos courts have often ruled against forced evictions, especially when carried out without due process or resettlement arrangements. The ...

Representatives of Slum Mahila Sanghatane, a city-based organisation working towards the welfare of slum dwellers, say that ...

However, while residents of Mumbai’s slums are getting bigger homes, they aren’t necessarily livable. Slum-free Mumbai Pre-1995, a committee headed by former chief secretary Dinesh Afzalpurkar ...

In recent years, a large numbers of climate migrants from districts like Satkhira, Bagerhat, and Khulna have sought shelters ...

Under the scheme, the civic body is carrying out surveys in around 37 slums across the city with plans to construct 25,138 ...

The NGOs say the idea behind the initiative is to push women, who are mostly working as house helpers in various apartment ...

The Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were destroyed and roughly ... the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring or gas ...

MATHARE, Kenya — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, ...