Paul Grondahl is the Opalka Endowed Director of the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany and a former Times ...

Motorists had to wait almost indefinitely in traffic gridlock as jubilant supporters of politicians decked in party colours ...

Key components of the plan include the expansion of the Kampala Central Business District to Nakasero, Nakawa, and Kololo, and the construction of expressways to ease traffic congestion. Proposed ...

NEW figures show that, so far this year, 37,000 people have arrived in small boats on the beaches of Kent. So naturally, ...

Raila Amolo Odinga was not flawless - no transformative leader ever is - but he was profoundly consequential. He humanised ...

In this weekly series on living in Nairobi, Michael Ochieng' reports from the bustling Mlango Kubwa, which is part of the 13 Mathare villages and where there is always competition for something; space ...

To resolve this crisis, the government should build low-cost houses in urban areas. This can be done through public-private ...

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the implementation of the slum cluster redevelopment scheme through Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) for projects on large private, govt, and semi-govt ...

In another decisions, the Cabinet approved a state-wide sewage treatment and reuse policy for 424 urban local bodies. MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday approved a scheme that seeks to ...

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday set aside the state's acquisition of a prime suburban private land in Goregaon East, which was declared a slum under the Slum Act. The HC drew the state's ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...

The Maharashtra cabinet on October 7 approved a cluster redevelopment scheme for slums in Mumbai, paving the way for large-scale transformation of the city’s informal settlements. The plan envisions ...