The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...

Tourists from Trinidad and Tobago have been barred from entering Britain without a visa in a bid to shut off fraudulent asylum claims from the Caribbean country. Before today's crackdown, Trinidadians ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith Rowley says he will resign from office on March 16. He was speaking during a ceremony on Wednesday morning to ren ...

From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the ...

Montano says “it didn’t come out the way it was supposed to come out.” For fans and Minaj alike, it appeared Montano was accusing her and Trinidad Killa of fighting him down. Instead, he says he was ...

The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...

Her father, a constable, found it difficult to support the family amidst financial struggles and social bias. She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in ...