LONDON, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the risks of allowing Africa's swelling ranks of city dwellers to crowd into slums without proper access to water, ...

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...

Kenya President William Ruto has made a promise to completely overhaul Kibera, one of the biggest slums in Africa, into an estate in the next 10 years. Ruto made the promise last Sunday, during a ...

As cities in developing nations grow rapidly, they face the same challenges that Western ones did during the industrial era. Informal neighborhoods pop up, with housing that is cheap but overcrowded, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

A slum-based healthcare rightsorganisation wants the new HIV prevention drug to be first rolled out in poorneighbourhoods to bear much of the epidemic’s brunt.The lobby also wants healthcare workers ...

Education in many African countries has lagged standards of education on other continents for some time. Underinvestment from local governments as well as many children from lower-income families ...

David Sanderson worked in southern and west Africa for a number of years for the NGO CARE International. He is the author of the 2019 Urban Humanitarian Response Good Practice Review. The head of the ...

Kids That Code (KTC), an initiative aimed at empowering kids for the future by encouraging them to code early, has partnered with a non-profit organization, Chess In Slums Africa, to help ...

Residents watch a television at the beginning of a curfew which was ordered by the Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), inside a house within ...