There's a particular kind of travel brochure that doesn't look like a travel brochure. It shows up as a voluntourism website, ...

Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a ...

A new medical clinic in a slum area of Ghana is now better equipped to offer much-needed medical care thanks to the ...

A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

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

Recent research suggests that rapid increases in obesity are a result of complex interactions between factors such as people eating higher-calorie diets and engaging in lower levels of physical ...

Rapid urbanisation and associated changes in people’s lifestyle mean Africa faces a growing obesity problem. Increased urbanisation is associated with lifestyle changes such as decreased physical ...

A former United States embassy staff member has received a life sentence in federal prison following a prolonged campaign of sexual violence against two highly vulnerable teenage girls in Burkina Faso ...

Kenya began administering the first doses of lenacapavir—a groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention injection—in a Nairobi slum on Thursday, offering new hope in the country's fight against the ...

Nairobi — Two people were injured on Monday after dozens of makeshift houses collapsed in Kibagare slums in Westlands Sub-County following heavy rainfall, police have confirmed. According to a police ...

There is nothing that Peter Pius has not done to survive the harsh life in Kibera, Kenya which is arguably Africa's largest slum. Tucked away in his tin house with a wooden floor and no electricity or ...

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks ...