By: Rina Chandran
Date: 9 January 2017
Source: Reuters
A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life.
But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other
By PETER NGILA and JOHN MUCHANGI
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: The Star
Are the land bills being discussed in Parliament going to stop forced resettlement, grabbing and other land-related injustices?
By: Angela Almeida and John Surico
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Inside Rio de Janeiro's Horto favela, half-paved roads connect scattered homes, as monkeys comb through the trees above, and water streams through aqueducts
By: Yasin Kakande
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as the diggers tore
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation / Euronews
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mosquito-borne Zika virus spreading through the Americas, linked to severe birth defects in Brazil, will not be controlled over the long-term unless governments
By: Darshan Kunwar|
Date: August 20th 2016
Source: The Times of India
DEHRADUN: Three weeks after the state government issued an order granting ownership rights to 2,500 families living in 123 slums and low-lying localities, chief minister Harish Rawat on Saturday said that the process to
By: Republica
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: My República
KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Experts have said that the private sector has a key role in ushering in well-managed urbanization in the country.
By: Lou del Bello
Date: 12 January 2017
Source: IRIN
Living in the Kenyan slum of Mukuru is hard enough, but when it rains it’s downright miserable. Streets flood, sewage overflows, homes are inundated.
After each bout of torrential rain, Nairobi’s largest informal settlement is left a