Rebel leader denounces US-Congo minerals deal a year after Goma's fall

The leader of a Congolese rebel coalition that includes the M23 group said a deal between Kinshasa and Washington related to ...
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Life inside Pakistan’s largest slum

This story takes you deep inside Pakistan’s largest slum, a densely packed maze of makeshift homes, narrow alleys, and endless human movement. The community is built from scrap wood, tarps, rusted ...
The Hindu

How slums are made and razed in Bengaluru

How do slums mushroom? In Bengaluru, this question is usually asked only after bulldozers arrive — once homes are razed, livelihoods disrupted, and families pushed out overnight. On December 20, the ...
Barron's

Demolitions Cast Adrift Residents Of Africa's Biggest Floating Slum

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above ...
The Guardian

‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?

Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one The older inhabitants of Kinshasa can remember ...
Wall Street Journal

The Rent-Control Slums of New York

Journal Editorial Report: Progressives are happy with New York's mayor as the party's poster boy. Photo: Richard Swafford/Zuma Press Talk about socialist irony. Zohran Mamdani said last week that his ...