Africa’s cities are growing very rapidly. By 2050, 1.2 billion people, or 60 per cent of all Africans, will live in urban areas. For the United Nations Human Settlements Programme — known as ...

Dealing with a house fire is a nightmare scenario no matter where you live — but in the slums of South Africa, crowded conditions and open fires used for cooking can be a recipe for disaster. On New ...

REIGER PARK, SOUTH AFRICA — Clashes pitting the poorest of the poor against one another have killed 22 people in South Africa and underscored bitter frustration with the government's failure to ...

STANDING on a muddy patch of grass in Mathare, a district in the eastern part of Nairobi, Kevin surveys his handiwork. From an electricity pylon, a thick bundle of crudely twisted wire hangs down into ...

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...

Shacks are seen at an informal settlement near Cape Town, South Africa, September 14, 2016. Nicky Milne/Thomson Reuters Foundation via REUTERS By Nicky Milne CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters ...

Kenya President William Ruto has made a promise to completely overhaul Kibera, one of the biggest slums in Africa, into an estate in the next 10 years. Ruto made the promise last Sunday, during a ...

LAGOS, the congested commercial capital of Nigeria, has a population variously estimated at anything from 12m-21m. But what is certain is that people are moving to the megacity and its smaller ...