The late Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela encouraged slum-dwellers in the capital city of Caracas to occupy the Tower of David, a 45-storey skyscraper, turning it into presumably the world’s ...

Despite claims of thousands of Tren de Aragua members in the US, USA TODAY confirmed fewer than 135 had been arrested prior ...

Caracas (pop. 87,000), the balmy capital (average ... new super-boulevards crash through old slums, and lavender-painted buses soon roll along them. The construction drive has revealed the ...

Real time video of Primary School Teacher working with 4th grade students in Classroom Aerial view of famous slums of Caracas, Venezuela. Many favelas in poor residential area on the hills. The most ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...

The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...