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 ...

Extreme heat is affecting the health and ability to earn a living of slum dwellers in Africa. Studies reveal a quarter of ...

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 ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

Gas disaster: Police standing near a body covered with a blanket in the Angelo slum - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP Emma McIntyre Gas disaster: Police ...

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 ...

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, ...