Rents skyrocket in Abuja due inflation, housing crunch Many residents forced to move to slums to cut costs Influx drives out poorest residents, fuels overcrowding ABUJA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters ...

Every month, Jenifer Wangari (not her real name) has to choose between purchasing food and taking her three children to school. She stays in Kibera, one of the poorest slums in Nairobi. She and her ...

American entrepreneur and business owner Robert Kiyosaki said in an interview, "America is going to be the poorest country in the world, starting now." Kiyosaki, known for his book "Rich Dad Poor Dad, ...

At his barbershop carved into the steep flank of a Rio hillside slum, Jose do Carmo dos Santos used to cut the hair of the neighborhood's drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow ...

Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a non-communicable disease that occurs when there is a sustained elevation in the pressure of the blood that flows through the arteries.

MEDELLIN, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug wheelbarrows and ...

Signage for Sarafu on the streets of Mukuru Kayiaba slum in Nairobi, Kenya, July 28, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi. NAIROBI, Jan 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on a low ...

MIDDLETOWN -- A foundation that serves Nairobi, Kenya's poorest slum and founded by Wesleyan alumni and students, was recently awarded a $750,000 grant from the Westport-based Newman's Own foundation ...

Katwe, Uganda, is one of the poorest places on Earth. Its slums are filled with walls made from cardboard and hanging fabric scraps. There are no roofs and when the rains come, the few possessions ...

These three articles by Californian Marxist Mike Davis deal with the respective situations of the world’s richest and poorest people. For two billion of the poorest there is life in the mega-slums and ...