Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

It was a day of gratitude and appreciation, as happy slum dwellers filled the hall of the Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute (NSPRI) Lagos, on Monday April 3. From far and wide, ecstatic slum ...

A recent report shed light on the social ills that face women living in slums. The magnitude of the poor living standards that characterise informal settlements and slums in Nairobi is overwhelming.

Housing for economically vulnerable citizens accounts for half the land unlocked, influencing the narrative of the city’s ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

More than a dozen slum residents in an Indian city say they thought they were being vaccinated. They were part of clinical trials By CNN February 25, 2021 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) ...

The Directorate General of Basic Education Community Schools (BECS), under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional ...

"In the slum, you had to learn to be blind, deaf and mute about what some of the things that went on here or you'd find yourself in real trouble." Still, despite the difficulties, life in the slums ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — They huddle in a tight circle, shaking seed-filled maracas and shuffling in time to a rhythm that has pulsed through their tribes for generations. The dancers raise their voices ...