LAGOS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over ...

But conditions here are dire, as the slum remains excluded from urban planning. There is no sewage system, no waste ...

More than 1,000 Makoko residents and displaced families marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly to protest ongoing ...

Nigerian police ‍fired tear gas to ​disperse residents protesting in Lagos on January 28 over demolition work in ⁠one of Africa's largest floating slums, the Makoko slum, that has displaced thousands ...

Clearing illegal settlements in Lagos has been part of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s grand plan to improve Africa’s ...

By Manoj Kumar and Dhwani Pandya NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - India’s textile and apparel exporters, hit by 50% U.S.

Apartheid means separateness and refers to the policy of South Africa of forcing the black Africans into ghettos. They could ...

FOR many Brits, tuberculosis (TB) may sound like a disease that died out with the Victorian slums. It’s remembered as the illness that killed famous writers like Emily Brontë, who wrote Wuthering ...

Makoko, a historic floating fishing community in Lagos, has been thrown into crisis following an ongoing demolition exercise by the Lagos State ...

When segregation in the United States was legally ended in the 1960s, the government passed laws that sought to integrate ...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that, in 2030, 2.2 per cent of total working hours worldwide will be ...

By Aakar Patel This week, Rajasthan is set to pass a segregation law modelled after one in Gujarat. It is unlikely that most ...