Nearly 15,000 families living on and along canals in Ho Chi Minh City's District 8 will be removed and resettled in apartment ...

Over 200 persons dwelling in Baba Ayoyo, a popular slum within the Ahodwo suburb of Kumasi, have been displaced after fire tore through their homes.

The makeshift shanties are either made of rusty iron sheets, red loam soil or in some cases, polythene walls. Raw sewer openly drains from the nearby suburbs like Utalii Hotel, Muthaiga, and ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums… ...

In this video, we present 40 shocking examples of urban hell on Earth — from sprawling slums and makeshift settlements to devastated neighborhoods and toxic industrial zones.

Makeshift homes flattened in eviction drive. ... Later, women and men from the slums moved towards Murree Road and Mareer Chowk, where they set tyres and wooden planks on fire, ...

Sprawling informal settlements (or slums), ... 33, who sold second-hand clothing at a makeshift stall, if there was anyone that she felt might help her if her business ran into difficulty, ...

Rio de Janeiro’s favela of Rocinha sees makeshift dwellings spiral down the mountain, all but crashing into the turquoise swimming pools below. Such visceral inequality is the defining feature ...

Ballerinas turn one of Kenya's largest slums into a stage for a Christmas show. With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses ...