GOPALPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in Odisha

The homes of about 30,000 people have been demolished in a Kenyan slum to make way for a new $20m (£15m) dual carriage way in the capital Nairobi.

Granting small loans to help low earners in Africa's rapidly growing cities build their own homes could help solve a looming housing crisis, experts said on Thursday.

Nigeria's capital is one of the most highly modernised cities in Africa.

Corruption, poor management and lack of public consultation have hurt repeated efforts by the Kenyan government and donors to improve slums, including Kibera, the country's largest, researchers sai

MUMBAI: Even before the first month of 2018 has ended, 806 trees in the city are on the block - to be cut or transplanted.

Slum residents could soon win the fight against cholera after the county government announced plans to introduce special-package water.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Residents in a slum in Zambia’s capital are rioting over a ban on street vending that was imposed to control a cholera outbreak, the government said on Friday.