Though Isabella Mogeni lost everything she owned, she was lucky to survive the heavy storm waters that swept through the Mukuru kwa Reuben slums in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, killing dozens of her ...

A new study suggests that the 'neighbourhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their associated health problems. A team of academics led by Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick ...

Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a ...

Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 3.5% In 2018, Belize had an urban population of 174,000. In the country, only 6,000 people lived in slums, which is the second-lowest absolute ...

Like the untouchables in the Indian caste system, the ‘filthy’ slum dwellers of Nairobi have been shunned by a nation that is busy trying to achieve post-industrial status by turning the capital city ...

When people hear “slum,” they imagine poverty and despair, but Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world, tells a completely different story. In this video, we explore the real Dharavi, located ...

The government has declared May 10 a day of mourning to mark the deaths from disastrous floods and pledged to help. But some say the authorities... In Kenya's flooded slums, people mourn their losses ...