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Poor waste disposal and management is a threat to health and the environment
The status of waste disposal in the slum areas of Kampala is highly unhygienic and unsatisfactory.With an increase in the urban population and rising demand for food essentials, there has been a ...
Roy L. Prosterman, 89, Dies; Worked to Secure Land for the Rural Poor
Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging ...
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The sad tale of Mathare Valley Slums
The slum, one of the oldest in Africa, is home to over half a million ... The ten or more million beggars represent the poor countrymen who languish in abject poverty. The post - colonial Kenyan ...
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Why the papacy of Pope Francis matters for Africa and the poor and marginalised
When he visited Kenya in 2015, he chose to visit the slums of Nairobi to proclaim the gospel of liberation to the forsaken of society. He called on African governments to guarantee for the poor ...
Poor, indebted countries need collective relief, African leaders say
Growing external debt burdens are crippling the world's poorest countries, a group of former African leaders warned on Thursday as they pushed for a new programme of collective relief from private, ...
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The deadly divide between rich and poor people in urban Kenya
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Nursery school pupils, their class separated from another by nylon sacks, take an ...