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" ...

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads. Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities ...

Gamys, 30, is helping create the first map of Blamo Town, an informal settlement outside Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. Blamo Town has been around for almost 70 years and is home to about 20,000 ...

When Erica Hagen started mapping schools in the sprawling Nairobi slum of Kibera, she was surprised by their sheer number. Primary education is free in Kenya, yet its poorest people were ...

Drones help communities map flood risk in Dar es Salaam slums. By Kizito Makoye. January 4, 2017 7:57 AM UTC Updated January 4, 2017 TANDALE, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters ...

Around 500 people were evacuated from their homes on Friday after a fire broke out in Guryong Village, one of the last remaining slums in South Korea’s capital Seoul, according to fire officials.

Millions of people in Lagos live in slums.Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water.