In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...

The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived in ramshackle shanties, squatting on property they didn’t own. In an era when the Irish faced widespread prejudice, ...

"He started working as a labourer at a construction site near Tamil Nadu and Karnataka border. When the team found him, he was residing in a slum near the construction site," said the DCP.

Moraa John lived in Mathare, one of Nairobi’s toughest slums, but jostled her way out of poverty Working as a mama mboga in ...

The Bombay High Court last month began a first-of-its-kind review of a legislation. The law in question, The Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971, deals with the ...

The Supreme Court Thursday cleared the decks for the redevelopment of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra (East) by dismissing an appeal filed by residents against the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) ...

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A YouTuber has caused a storm online with his latest video, The Other Side of Phuket, which takes viewers behind the glossy tourist façade to one of the island’s largest slums. In the video, popular ...

The director of a Catholic-operated school in Phuket has contested the description of a Myanmar community in the province as a “slum” by a foreign YouTuber. A video on the YouTube channel Ride with ...

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 ...

Screenshot from video documentary 'THE OTHER SIDE OF PHUKET THAILAND' shows the cafeteria of a school in the crowded foreign community. PHUKET — Officials have announced the results of their ...