An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

Dr. Aron Sikuku, right, explains family planning pills to Beatrice Ravonga in Kibera Slums, Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

A Ugandan woman named Alois Kobia is facing manslaughter charges after admitting to killing a man while reveling at a club in Mukuru Kwa Reuben slums in Nairobi.

A petty act by a couple of teenagers has been inflated into a national scandal, seized on by William Ruto’s unpopular government to promote “national unity”.

Many of Madagascar’s difficulties stem from the disastrous socialist experiments under Didier Ratsiraka, president from 1975 to 1993 (and from 1997 to 2002), whom the cia thought wanted to turn the ...

The explosions happened Saturday night an area controlled by Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang coalition that the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. She believes that "at best" three-quarters of Dharavi ...