Slums and Informal Settlements in Ghana, has once again brought to the fore a critical development issue--the alarming spread of slums across the country.

calling it “a silent war that is decimating families and driving more citizens into poverty.” From slums to suburbs, sugary ...

More than 4.8 million Ghanaians, representing 30.8 per cent of the urban population, are living in slum conditions ...

Labour MPs are obviously going to panic when told their votes might plunge just one person into poverty – let alone 250,000.

Most residents of Nairobi’s slums live in extreme poverty, meaning they exist on just a couple of dollars a day. With such meager earnings, the increasing cost of living in recent years has made life ...

A report by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that about 4.82 million Ghanaians, roughly 30.8 per cent of the urban population, are living in slums. The figure exceeds the global average of 24.7 ...

By Ruchi Chabra It begins with a whistle. I sit by the window of the train, clutching a lukewarm cup of over-sweet chai. The ...

Slum dwellings along the capital’s riverbanks were swept away, while the government bulldozed 40,000 remaining homes within 30 meters (about 100 feet) of the Nairobi River for safety reasons.

As Dhaka swelters under record temperatures, women in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods face a brutal, daily struggle—trapped between unpaid care, precarious work, and suffocating heat with no escape ...

Currently, Beyond Uganda is participating in the 24th annual Fred Paxton Challenge for Charities, in which every dollar ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% ...

A survey of slums in four different-sized cities in Telangana reveals the need to integrate bottom-up approaches in schemes that are currently top-down. Non-economic factors are critically important ...