In the southern Italian town of Matera, I followed a sinuous laneway down into a haunting district known as the Sassi (Italian for the “stones”), where some 1,500 cave dwellings honeycomb the ...

The road to the slum [Photo: Courtesy] Originally, Mji wa Huruma was part of Cheleta which is popularly known today as Runda, an Italian name given by Cheleta who owned the vast land in Runda ...

Catholics looked to the late Pope Francis to address enormous questions about the Church, and he wrestled with many of them, ...

Most slums and settlements have been constructed on fiscal land, 52.4%; in usurped private land 35%. As to their location, 35.3% along dry streams or rivers; 33.6% close to high traffic lanes and ...