CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is ...

DIEPSLOOT, South Africa – Ersido Ayele is still wearing the same pants, shirt and sweatshirt he had on when some 40 looters broke through the corrugated iron roof of his corner store almost three ...

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi's unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law into their own ...

Emoya Private Game Reserve, Conference Centre and Spa in Bloemfontein, South Africa has created a fake slum for wealthy tourists to experience slum life “within the safe environment of a private game ...

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 ...

Gas disaster: Police standing near a body covered with a blanket in the Angelo slum - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP Emma McIntyre Gas disaster: Police ...

Olumuyiwa Adegun receives funding from Guest Researchers’ Scholarship, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. Sweden. In sub-Saharan Africa, over 55% of the urban population are estimated to live in areas ...

Residents watch a television at the beginning of a curfew which was ordered by the Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), inside a house within ...

Education in many African countries has lagged standards of education on other continents for some time. Underinvestment from local governments as well as many children from lower-income families ...