Ekiti State government continued efforts at transforming Atikankan area and the surrounding streets is a welcome development, but some activities in the community have become a source of concerns to ...

In Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi and one of the largest slums in Africa, the biggest defenses against the spread of COVID-19—social distancing and frequent ...

From street prodigies to continental heartbreak, Africa rsquo;s football is a tale of brilliance dimmed by broken systems .

Africa’s slums are full of enterprising people. But they are also deeply dysfunctional places, where much of the population lives in a Hobbesian world of exploitation.

According to estimates by UN-Habitat, 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were living in slums in 2010, or 61.7 per cent of the region’s urban population, the highest rate in the world. North ...

KIBERA, Kenya — 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 ...

Activists are increasingly looking to help the growing number of slum residents in Africa through local organizations and economic programs. This reverses previous activism in Africa focused on ...

Figures recently published by the UN show that 1.1bn people now live in slums globally. In Sub-Saharan Africa, slum settlements house over 53 per cent of the urban population.

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 ...