BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

The torching of homes in the Mathare slums last weekend was merely one of the incidents that contributes to making life intolerable in our shantytowns. The revenge attacks by youths which left scores ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...

Until recently, Vikas Gawali lived in a one-room shack with his wife, two daughters, his mother, his older brother and sister-in-law, their children, and another brother—12 people in a single room.

This video offers a close look inside a Venezuelan slum located near the Brazil border, where residents face extremely harsh living conditions. It explores daily life, limited access to resources, and ...

Living in Nairobi’s slums is tough – residents are 35% more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than those in rural areas Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a ...

Call it a pathetic life in the day of two Lagos slums – and you will be absolutely right to describe the revealing trip as one. But the journey took off on a rather dour note. That was on Monday April ...

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