When we think of the parts of Africa on the frontline of the climate crisis, the images that often come to mind are dead livestock and withered crops. A decidedly rural scene, where people relying on ...

Engrossing and meticulously crafted by Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy), this film canvasses the complex life and career of the legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona, from his youth in the slums ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...

The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...

As climate change has made India’s summers more extreme, Ahmedabad has suffered temperatures in excess of 46°C. In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 ...

Mumbai: State housing board Mhada and the SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) will expedite work on 17 slum redevelopment projects involving 25,000 homes being undertaken in joint partnership.

According to the two presidents, discussions could begin between Kinshasa and the M23 armed group. After Tshisekedi, and Lourenço had a one-on-one meeting, Angola's presidency explained on ...

Marcus Bachmann, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the situation in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the conflict evolves ...