The mayor of capital Mamoudzou, Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, told the press that rescue workers expect many casualties in the rubble of the densely populated slums, especially in the hills above Mamoudzou.

Lagos is Nigeria's economic powerhouse, but it has some of the worst slums in the country ... These are among the slums the World Bank has identified for upgrading as part of a US$200 million ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city ... whose roof was painted in January. Across the world, heatwaves that, prior to the industrial revolution, had a 1-in-10 chance of occurring ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are ... Mountains of plastic waste The world has produced more plastic in the past 20 years than the total ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city ... whose roof was painted in January. Across the world, heatwaves that, prior to the industrial revolution, had a one-in-10 chance of occurring ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city ... whose roof was painted in January. Across the world, heatwaves that, prior to the industrial revolution, had a one-in-10 chance of ...