There is a pervasive sense of fear — of losing access to critical health care services and of livelihoods lost,” CFK Africa ...

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

"You can look for a plumber around here until you faint," said Martha Otieno, a youth worker for CFK Africa, a charity working with young people in slums. "How many office managers do we really need?" ...

From Kawangware, Kibra took over. Same script. The biggest urban slum in Africa was fast leading with Covid-19 numbers. For slums, with Covid-19 infections, it almost looks like a competition.

UN-HABITAT reports that 72 percent of urban dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa live in slums, which gives it the second largest slum population in the world after south central Asia. Expectations are that ...

While fans worldwide know him for his chart-topping hits, behind the scenes, Nigerian Afro-dancehall artist Patoranking has set out to change the lives of one million young people by 2035.

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

But about 1, 500 families from the largest slum in Africa, will in the next two weeks move to modern stone houses as part of the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project. The construction of 17 blocks of five ...