Each year, the first Monday of October marks World Habitat Day, which aims to reflect on the state of towns and cities, and on the right of all to adequate shelter. The share of people living in urban ...

A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic ...

In the narrow lanes behind the Mumbai train tracks, the slum's first Oscar party turned into a raucous celebration of two hometown heroes, complete with Bollywood dance moves and squeals of joy from ...

We look at the Sudanese press as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces agree to a temporary truce. Will the world stop a ...

It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents ...

In the heart of Mukuru Estate in Nairobi, a father guides the media into his family’s new housing unit. The children laugh as they play in a corridor, no longer in the flood-prone shacks of before.