Dorah Jones, 30, suffered burns in infancy when her home caught fire in the South African shanty town where she lived.

# MORE than 100 illegal structures in the T-Wash shantytown on Cowpen Road will soon be demolished, according to Craig Delancy, buildings control officer at the Ministry of Works and Family Island ...

Uruguay announced it will invest 150 million dollars for the eradication of shanty towns, 90% of which are located in Montevideo, half of them in contaminated and flood-prone areas. Housing and ...

In the bustling shanty towns of Africa, like Mukuru in southern Kenya, an unexpected burst of business activity illuminates a unique narrative of economic resilience and drive. Fueled by survival ...

The huge volume of people migrating to cities has caused many problems. New arrivals to the city build their own houses out of basic materials such as tarpaulin, corrugated sheets and broken ...

A homeless man, living in a notorious “tent city” in the dunes at Dee Why Beach, set fire to a neighbouring campsite because ...

I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa for a wedding. It was less than a decade after Apartheid ended. My family and I stayed at a friend of a friend's luxurious home. It sat on a high hill in a ...

But in 1966 when apartheid was in full swing, District Six was declared a "white" neighborhood, and more than 60,000 people were forced to move to the shanty towns established in Cape Flats ...

The all-male cast of about 14 will present a staged reading of “Moby Dick,” which opens Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre’s ...

The luxury Seabourn Sojourn cruise ship has docked in Great Yarmouth as part of a fourteen-day round trip of the Jewels Of ...

This is an exclusive song premiere, part of WBUR's effort to highlight New England musicians. A dreamy guitar motif layered with swaying bass and a soaring drum beat bursts at the opening of band ...

Although successive administrations have pledged to eradicate shanty towns, their efforts were often stymied in court. In 2023, in a long-awaited ruling, Supreme Court Justice Cheryl Grant ...