In a waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria, I watched from the shoreline as two men worked a stretch of lagoon from their canoe. One held the boat steady. The other dived underwater a few metres, then surfaced with a bucket full of sand, emptied...
A growing number of shacks are being erected in unserviced informal settlements in Clanwilliam and Citrusdal as families with few alternatives settle on the outskirts of towns in the Cederberg Local Municipality. A Western Cape socio-economic...
Bulldozers and construction crews are reshaping parts of Nairobi’s best-known informal settlement, Kibera. In a video shared by President William Ruto, new apartment blocks rise alongside existing corrugated-iron structures, while new roads cut...
Residents of the Boxwood Road informal settlement in Kenville, Durban, say they have been forced to use buckets to flush their communal toilets for the past two years. Water runs continuously through some toilets, but the flushing mechanisms do not...
