Global Sisters Report is publishing a special series about how trash is managed in the world and how sisters are helping people affected by landfills. We start this project to mark the one-year ...

SANTA CRUZ — Black smoke from burning e-waste and the acrid smell of sewage filled the air as Carson Watts walked through the slums of Old Fadama in the capital city of Ghana. Home to nearly 100,000 ...

Communicable diseases are most of the diseases that many Ghanaians today would not want to come across, yet our environmental conditions still remain very dirty. I believe no one on this earth would ...

More and more people are being drawn into slums in Ghana’s capital city, Accra. Shutterstock A significant portion of people who migrate from rural to urban areas across Africa end up trapped in slums ...

Sodom and Gomorrah is the biggest slum in Ghana, a country that sprouts shantytowns like weeds. There are about eighty thousand Sodomites crammed onto less than half a square mile in the capital city, ...

Savings from the association in Old Fadama have allowed residents to upgrade their homes from wood to concrete. Photo credit: Shack Dwellers International Salifu leads the chant: “Information!” “Power ...

Informal settlements continue to remain a significant component of many cities in the developing world. UN Habitat describes them as lacking security of tenure, not having durable housing and short of ...

In Virginia gerrymandering fight, Republicans claim Obama's with them. He isn't Republican groups are using Obama's comments from nine years ago in their favor. Reuters, the news and media division of ...

Scores of residents at Afful Nkwanta, a congested informal settlement in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region, have been displaced following a destructive fire that swept through the area at ...

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 ...