“We feel betrayed by the older generation,” Namayi Auma, 24, told me in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, where she grew up. Her oldest sister, 33, got no formal education, but Auma just ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

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DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2025: Amidst heated campaigning for the upcoming Delhi polls on February 5, all three parties – AAP, BJP and Congress – are vying for a share of the sizable vote from the city ...

Preliminary reports indicated that the fire broke out in one of the buildings at the institution Monday evening. The cause of the fire was not immediately established but the reports indicated ...

A judge has cancelled a Sh300 million award to the family of the late Kiambu tycoon Samuel Gatabaki against the government for trespass after Equity Bank convinced the court that it has interest ...

Their support was almost seen as a given. But recent developments have shown that Delhi's slum voters are no longer easily swayed. In fact, AAP has emerged as a dominant force in this demographic ...

At the same time, affordable housing and other fair resolutions to Karachi's housing problems are not on the government's agenda, meaning slums will continue to pop up. The provincial government ...

Ahead of the Delhi Assembly election, the AAP, BJP, and Congress have sharpened their pitch on slums and are courting the city's over three million slum dwellers. The residents of the 675 slums in ...

The almost three lakh households in Delhi’s 675 slums and 1,700 jhuggi-jhopri (JJ) clusters, or unauthorised colonies, make up almost 10% of the electorate and, as a result of their sheer size, form ...

Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo Dolci outraged official sensibilities with a book depicting the miseries of Palermo’s slum dwellers. Eight in a Bed.