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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s estimated that one in eight people worldwide live in so-called slums, which, in some cities, makes visiting these informally maintained neighborhoods unavoidable. Although controversial, the ...

Divya Khosla Kumar immersed herself in slum life for 20 days to prepare for a movie role, embracing daily chores and ...

Sandhya sits at a makeshift school under a tin roof of a small temple trying to grasp what little she can from the children’s rhymes. Crippled from birth, the 4-year-old girl is among the many ...