Bravian Mise, 14, practices a series of long leaps and pirouettes in the narrow living room of his tin-roofed house in a slum in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

Balkhisa Bashir has trained over 500 women in informal settlements to make and sell products, transforming dependence into ...

ANOTHER traditional terraced Warrington home is set to be converted to a HMO. This is despite fears the move will ‘return the area and residents to 19th century slum living conditions’. A certificate ...

Donald Trump knows that the Roaring ’20s was a time of great opulence for the upper class. He ignores, however, that those years were marked by corruption, gangsters, child labor, slum living ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...