Just another day in Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Slums are characterised by densely packed settlements with inadequate provision of services. Reuters/Noor Khamis We live in an urban century. Already more ...

A day after a devastating fire tore through the Kalshi slum in the capital, survivors were seen sifting through the charred remains of their homes today (26 May), searching desperately for anything ...

Today I’m walking into what’s often described as the world’s biggest slum home to around 2 million people. No filters, no narration tricks: just what I see, hear, and learn on the ground. This place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Rina Chandran CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his ...

AROUND 6am, the squealing of copulating rats—signalling a night-long verminous orgy on the rooftops of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai—gives way to the more cheerful sound of chirruping sparrows. Through a ...

Nearly 50,000 JNNURM flats on Delhi outskirts to be renovated for slum dwellers Rs 700 crore unused funds will refurbish flats under PMAY-U scheme Delhi has 675 slum clusters housing 3.06 lakh ...

The project, spread across 338 acres from Digha and Airoli to Shirvane, involved rehabilitation of around 35,800 eligible tenements under a cluster model that could have significantly altered land-use ...