COLONIE — The poor, desperate children who live on the streets in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, call Diane Reiner "jajja." It's slang for grandmother, or a loving maternal presence. Advertisement ...

*NAIROBI, Kenya — Nairobi’s urban slums have become the breeding grounds for well-off street gangs. Violent robbery has long been associated with young men from impoverished backgrounds. The trend, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The three-person crew of Slum TV set out under the hot noon sun, slinging a video camera and microphone through the crooked labyrinth of iron-sided shacks, graffitied beer joints, ...

It’s a regular Monday morning in one of Delhi’s city slums and 14-year-old Chandni is getting ready to face the day ahead. Just as she’s about to step out, a frantic voice calls out her name – it’s a ...

Google launched its Street View mapping service in a slum for the first time, covering a favela in Rio de Janeiro days before it hosts the Olympics. If you are planning to visit in person, you might ...

A short walk from the Indraprastha metro station leads to Anna Nagar, a slum cluster in Central Delhi. Home to over 10,000 people, the settlement is a maze of narrow lanes and cramped shanties. Open ...

MUMBAI—In this land-starved financial capital of India, where millions live in slums, a developer late last year started razing two-story brick shanties and tin-shelters near Dhobi Ghat, the world’s ...