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A family including baby twins has been forced to live in a wooden canoe after their home in a historic Lagos neighborhood was ...

Pakistan’s largest slum is home to millions living in extreme density and scarcity. Infrastructure struggles to keep up with the population. Homes, businesses, and daily routines are tightly packed ...

Nigerian police used tear gas to break up protests in Lagos, as residents opposed demolition efforts in the Makoko slum, displacing thousands. Demonstrators demanded intervention from the state ...

The National Housing Authority (NHA) has revealed that, as part of the Special Presidential Project, it is acquiring and preparing land for the construction of 600 housing units in six pilot counties.

How do slums mushroom? In Bengaluru, this question is usually asked only after bulldozers arrive — once homes are razed, livelihoods disrupted, and families pushed out overnight. On December 20, the ...

Objectives: Access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is essential for human health and wellbeing. However, many households in slum settlements lack access to WASH and are exposed to ...

Asma's father, Ajmol Mia, was not even married when he came to Dhaka from Noakhali back in the 1990s. While working as a newspaper hawker in Tejgaon, he got to know of a place where cheap food was ...

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 ...