The Tema Regional Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has recorded 616 fire outbreaks in 2024, a 15% increase from the 533 cases in 2023.

Ghana’s cholera outbreak has so far claimed the lives of 43 persons and a total of 480 infections, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said.The cholera outbreak, which hit the country in October 2024, ...

By Daniel KONTIEWill the affordable housing dream ever going to materialize in Ghana where several attempts to build ...

Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Moke, a slum in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region have been displaced following a fire incident that ...

The residents of Malad staged a protest against the City Survey Department when officials arrived in Aksa Village to conduct a land survey as part of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. The survey ...

Their support was almost seen as a given. But recent developments have shown that Delhi's slum voters are no longer easily swayed. In fact, AAP has emerged as a dominant force in this demographic ...

The AAP claimed that the BJP will “demolish all slums in Delhi” if it is voted to power in the Capital. With three weeks to go for the Delhi assembly elections, the battle to win over ...

Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo Dolci outraged official sensibilities with a book depicting the miseries of Palermo’s slum dwellers. Eight in a Bed.

"The PM said that all public welfare schemes will continue and the poor will get permanent houses... Yesterday also the Home Minister said that slum dwellers will get houses, and if someone will solve ...

two each from Ghana and Uganda, and one from Senegal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka), Ankit Singh, said. "Among them were five Nigerian women and three Uzbek women. These illegal immigrants ...

These compelling photos provide a peek into Birmingham's history, revealing the grim reality of life in slum dwellings. Years ago, a substantial portion of the city's inhabitants resided in slums ...