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 ...

Africa’s cities are growing very rapidly. By 2050, 1.2 billion people, or 60 per cent of all Africans, will live in urban areas. For the United Nations Human Settlements Programme — known as ...

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, ...

REIGER PARK, SOUTH AFRICA — Clashes pitting the poorest of the poor against one another have killed 22 people in South Africa and underscored bitter frustration with the government's failure to ...

STANDING on a muddy patch of grass in Mathare, a district in the eastern part of Nairobi, Kevin surveys his handiwork. From an electricity pylon, a thick bundle of crudely twisted wire hangs down into ...

LAGOS, the congested commercial capital of Nigeria, has a population variously estimated at anything from 12m-21m. But what is certain is that people are moving to the megacity and its smaller ...

On the first day of January 2013, as people around the world celebrated the New Year, a huge fire tore through one of South Africa’s largest slums. Sparked by a cooking flame, the blaze in Khayelitsha ...

CFK Africa, an international nonprofit that empowers youth in 26 slums across East Africa, has launched a new initiative targeting women in Kenyan slums. The initiative dubbed, Women at Work, will ...

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 ...

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 ...