A generation of Africans is being quietly evicted from dignity . About a week ago, in Nigeria, students at the University of Lagos protested the surge in hostel rents by 40% in a single year, with a ...

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 ...

Analysis - As Nigerian cities swell with millions of new residents, the challenge is clear: can the country's urban centres become hubs of opportunities and prosperity, or will they succumb to the ...

After his historical visit to the USA, Cuba and Philadelphia, the time is almost here for the long anticipated visit by the holy father to Africa.

The ministry, under Cabinet Secretary Ann Waiguru, picked urban agriculture as one of the projects aimed at uplifting the lifestyle of dwellers in one of the biggest slums in Africa.

According to the recent Humanitarian Futures Group (HFG) report, “Urban Catastrophes: The Wat/San Dimension,” which examines how water and sanitation stress drives other humanitarian crises in slums, ...

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate ...

One of the poorest and least developed countries in the world, Liberia still bears the unhealed wounds of a 1989-2003 civil war.