LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has a target to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030 An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

They once lived the 'gangster life.' Now they tackle food insecurity in Kenya's slums MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, ...

Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered. With undivided attention, he points the cue-stick at a white ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...

Young men who once lived the “gangster life” in Kenya's capital have become farmers with a social mission. MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in ...