Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

Korail does not fit neatly into Dhaka’s urban picture, but maybe that is what makes it what it is — a place constantly creating, rebuilding, and living on its own terms ...

The new French documentary 'Adventurers of Christ' by director Damien Boyer follows five Catholic missionaries from the Paris Foreign Mission Society (MEP) in Asia and Africa, aiming to restore the ...

I’ve been to Chicago and, believe me, it’s no garden of earthly delights. My theory is that they build all the beautiful ...

Caught between withdrawn donor funding and a rocky Social Health Authority rollout, Kenyans living with HIV are now forced to ...

Why do slums co-exist with affluent neighbourhoods? Mukuru with South B, Kangemi with Loresho, Githogori with Runda, Mathare with Muthaiga, Deep Sea with Spring Valley? Other towns outside Nairobi ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, ...

President Trump talked about his plans for post-war Gaza on his way to the Middle East, as Israel and Hamas prepare for the first phase of a cease-fire. Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Israeli ...

Ivy Odom, Southern Living magazine’s senior lifestyle editor, published her first cookbook this month. In an interview from her home in Birmingham, Alabama, she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...

Back in Kawangare, Jane has also seen the impacts of cuts to HIV services on people in the slums living with HIV. “There is a church around the corner from here, where women used to go who are ...