A VILLA MISERIA OUTSIDE Buenos Aires may have the worst feng shui in the world: it is built in a flood zone over a former lake, a toxic dump, and a cemetery. Then there’s the barrio perched ...

Now in hiding, César Montes led rebel forces, including the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, against US-backed dictatorships across Central America. Jacobin visited him in the Guatemalan prison where he ...

Bennie van Zyl says they're needed back home, and they would be crazy to go The fact that South Africa has farmers to export is somewhat bizarre - the country's population is 48 million and rising, ...

At independence, the Congo had only two graduates, and such fabulous riches that the country inevitably became a magnet for rapacious foreign companies and for the Western intelligence services.

Delhi L-G VK Saxena accused Arvind Kejriwal of lying and misleading people With the Delhi election weeks away, the ruling AAP and Opposition BJP are going all out to woo voters in urban slums -- a ...

The Constitutional Bench (CB) of the Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to submit in two weeks a report explaining its policy with regard to informal settlements or slums. The head ...

Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba of the Archdiocese of Saurimo in Angola has revealed that he was once on a list of people targeted for assassination for defending truth and justice. In an ...

Nargis Dutt Nagar slum is set for redevelopment into luxury apartments, with a project valued at ₹10,000 crore by Roshni Developers and Godrej Properties MUMABI: Bandra’s largest slum ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday cleared the decks for redevelopment of Dharavi slums as it upheld the tender awarded to the Adani Group for the project by the Maharashtra government ...

Hundreds of slum and shanty residents in multiple areas of Kolkata have been rendered homeless in winter following consecutive fires last week. On the night of December 21, a massive blaze reduced ...

The Bombay High Court has upheld the Maharashtra State Housing Department’s award of the Dharavi Slum Rehabilitation Project to Adani Properties Pvt. Ltd., dismissing a legal challenge from ...

As a UN report is released condemning the poor state of housing provision in Nigeria, the BBC's Mayeni Jones visits a precarious community in the commercial capital, Lagos. From above, the Oko ...