Sitting on the fringes of the Moroccan desert, the mountainous region of Ait Baamrane receives little rainfall. But what it does get in abundance, and for six months of the year, is dense fog sweeping ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — As we darted through Addis Ababa’s morning rush hour, my jet lag couldn’t dull the energy of Ethiopia’s capital. The St. Johns River: 30 experiences to explore ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — As we darted through Addis Ababa’s morning rush hour, my jet lag couldn’t dull the energy of Ethiopia’s capital. Related Articles Yosemite National Park summer ...

As per Census 2011, one out of every six city dwellers — that is, 17.4% of the total urban population in India — lives in slums. While union and different state governments have made several efforts ...

A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said the blaze destroyed eight houses ...

FILE - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during an exchange of notes after his meeting with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Oct. 26, 2024. (Hasnoor Hussain ...

The Ethiopian Constitution stipulates that land is owned by the ... increase the cost of infrastructure and service delivery and it is also driving informal slum areas particularly on the urban ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

A slum colony that could rival the scale of clusters of shanties in Bandra East is quietly mushrooming on railway premises under the nose of Western Railway (WR). The abandoned fifth and sixth ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

As tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea escalate, the region of Tigray stands at the heart of a looming conflict, writes one of the leaders of the armed struggle in Tigray against the Derg. At any ...