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 ...

"Today at 5pm, I am going to give them houses here in Mukuru. A person who has been living in the slum today will climb to the 14th floor, go and live there, and it is his/her own home," the President ...

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 ...

Living in Nairobi’s slums is tough – residents are 35% more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than those in rural areas Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a ...

That is according to a new study published in Nature Cities, which measures the flood risk of global-south populations living in “slums” – as defined by UN-Habitat. Using a combination of machine ...

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 ...

At 5:30 a.m. on April 9, Salako Hunsa awoke to the sound of gunfire. He left his wife and five children inside the house, and ran out to a shocking scene: A squad of police officers shooting ...