Kenyan police officers face off with anti-tax protesters outside the Kenyan parliament building in Nairobi on 25 June 2024.
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In response to flooding that destroyed homes and displaced thousands in Nairobi’s informal settlements, the government has been evicting people living in riparian areas.
Nigerian police officers detain a man during a political rally in Lagos on 21 February 2023.
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Most of the 1 billion people in informal settlements are in the tropics where the threat of humid heat is rising. Poor weather station coverage that misses local hotspots puts them even more at risk.
Rapid urbanisation and population growth in Africa have pushed people to informal settlements.
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The impact of housing quality extends beyond health to education and subsequent economic outcomes, particularly for children.
About 70% of people in Addis Ababa live in informal settlements that are vulnerable to climate change. Amanuel Sileshi/AFP/
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The goal of a ‘slum-free India’ would benefit residents of informal settlements more if the housing being built drew on the features of their old neighbourhoods that made their lives better.
Key to preventing cholera is a good supply of water.
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Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Family members wash away blood at the scene of a shooting in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, where seven people were shot dead in May.
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The study highlights the flimsy boundaries between different forms of violence: torture and extrajudicial punishment, lawful arrest, and an unlawful kidnapping.
A general view of the damage in an informal settlement heavy rains, mudslides and winds in Durban, on April 13, 2022.
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Despite environmental education topics in curricula, not all children are aware of the elements that endanger the planet or actively involved in taking care of the environment.
Trevor Ngwane, an activist and academic, shows how structures that emerged in the struggle against apartheid continue in democratic South Africa, now in conflict with the ruling ANC.
Residents clean up the streets and local businesses after looting incidents in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.
Africa’s urban challenges are increasingly well known and documented. But the amount of data produced on urban Africa still pales in comparison to other parts of the world.
Hundreds of trees have been felled along Nairobi’s Uhuru and Waiyaki highways to make space for a new expressway.
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Nairobi harbours all the ingredients for zoonotic spillover to occur between animals and people, particularly in the most densely populated areas of the city.
Cooking on solid fuels exposes people to toxic pollutants.
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