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 ...

As cities in developing nations grow rapidly, they face the same challenges that Western ones did during the industrial era. Informal neighborhoods pop up, with housing that is cheap but overcrowded, ...

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to millions ...

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 form of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Umutoni Thuku-Benzinge was a teenager, she used to sell Kenyan jewelry to her friends and family after she'd returned from her summer holidays on the African continent. "I was actually quite ...