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Orangi Town in Karachi, Pakistan, has earned the unwelcome reputation of being the world's largest slum. The cluster of settlements on the outskirts of Karachi is home to an astonishing 2.4 ...

In recent years, this population shift has become a deluge. Africa is, and for the coming decade will remain, the most rapidly urbanizing area of the world. UN-HABITAT reports that 72 percent of urban ...

(CNN)-- Multiple Oscar winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" has brought the plight of India's slum dwellers to the rest of the world. But up to a million slum dwellers in the economic capital Mumbai ...

But all coexist in the dynamic ecosystem that is Dharavi. The slum, one of Asia’s largest, occupies over two sq km of prime real estate in India’s financial capital of Mumbai. Up to a million ...

Yet in the Motala Heights slum in South Africa, along with many others around the world, the situation remains stagnant as governments continue to deny slum dwellers basic infrastructure and ...

NMDPL has said in a statement that the Maharashtra govt has approved the allocation of approx 256 acres of salt pan land for ...

As Australia’s largest university ... have led to the development of informal settlements or slums on city outskirts around the world. Over one billion people live in these settlements, and ...

In the heart of Makoko, one of Africa’s largest slums, a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy defied all odds to become a chess champion, inspiring a nation and the world.