A major demolition drive is underway in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar area, specifically targeting illegal slums in the Jailarwala Bagh locality. Authorities have deployed a heavy police force and set up ...

The government is considering building affordable houses in all the slums across the country. Cabinet Secretary for Public ...

Opposition leaders and rights activists are jailed as presidents previously hailed as democrats turn repressive. It wasn’t always this way.

Rwanda slams the door on ECCAS, Ngong's groundnuts remain under-exploited, and in Nairobi, bitcoin is making its mark in the ...

According to Naivasha DCIO Isaac Kiama, police acting on a tip-off had flagged down the lorry as part of ongoing ...

Here it comes. The summer festival season. We’re just two months or so until the various Edinburgh Festivals kick off, only a month until ...

A Kenyan company has introduced bitcoin into what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum. AP video by Moses Ndungu ...

President Donald Trump has signed a travel ban on 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, from coming to ...

Here are the poorest countries in Africa based on GDP and GNI per capita. Africa’s economic growth has been downgraded by the ...

Kenya has begun an ambitious plan to transform Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, into a modern housing estate under its national affordable housing programme. President William Ruto inspected the Soweto ...

Mukuru slums had witnessed an influx of people as the Kenyan population ... first set of students in 2008 during the post-election violence, the worst in the East African country when many Kenyans ...

A new short film series from East Africa explores how people are experiencing ... Nazma Begum, who lives in a slum in Dhaka, described the impact of working 14 hours a day in an overheated garment ...