The next wave of global leadership will emerge not from traditional powerhouses like Silicon Valley or London, but from the slums of Nairobi, the towns of Uganda, the villages of India, and other ...

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Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighborhood of Pakadjuma has struggled ...

Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" ...

Gautam Adani, who is worth more than $84 billion, calls the project “a transformational step”. He said that this will move ...

Is the United States a First World nation? It was exceptionally disturbing to read in the ADN on June 18 the difficulties involved in removing the Davis park homeless camp. Our municipality is ...

(BBC) A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda’s capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions – but faces a daily struggle to survive.

A Kenyan company has introduced bitcoin into what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum. About 200 people are using bitcoin as part of an initiative to extend financial services to ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a ...

A Kenyan company has introduced bitcoin into what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum.