DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For much of his early life on Bhola, an island in south-central Bangladesh, Mohammed Abul Kalam battled poverty and a hostile river that twice engulfed his ...
A sense of anxiety grips Rangpuri Pahari, a slum in India's capital Delhi. The neighbourhood houses thousands of migrant workers who have lived hand-to-mouth for decades, mostly employed in the ...
Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi - neighbours at a slum in India's capital Delhi - leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder. For three ...
CALAIS, France (AP) — Inside the Kids Cafe, a ramshackle refuge in a sprawling migrant slum in Calais, a mobile phone rings. Afghan teenager Wasaal takes the call. A friend of his has managed to hide ...
In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...