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Out of the slum and into joblessness
Cairo :: Egypt | 1 day ago
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When government workmen came in a truck to take Ahmad Mohammad’s furniture to his new home just outside Cairo, the 32-year-old fisherman was overjoyed: His dream of quitting the slum where he had lived for years seemed to be coming true. However, when...
Tags: Cairo, Ahmad Mohammad, Egypt, Slums, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Raouf, Development, Poverty, Urban decay
Madonna in-vests in Brazil
São Paulo :: Brazil | 2 days ago
Credibility Having just recently broken ground on a girls’ school in Malawi, Madonna is wasting no time in taking her Raising Malawi organization international. On a recent trip to Brazil, Madonna took time out to tour the Dona Marta shantytown in Rio. Accompanied...
Tags: Dona Marta, Madonna Wore Bullet-Proof Vest, Brazil, proof vests, Rio de Janiero, São Paulo, Marta Vieira da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Homework, Human Interest, Madonna (entertainer), Raising Malawi, Malawi, Education, Bulletproofing, Ballistic vest, Leather jacket, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Jackets, Law Crime, Favela, Poverty, Trackback, Overkill, Slums, Brazilian society
Keeper turns thief, flees with jewellery
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility According to the police, Yogeshwar started his jewellery store in 2007...Virendra Mallikarjun Narayankar, 39, a resident of Dharavi, said that his wife Manju had mortgaged her gold ornaments for Rs50,000. "She wanted to start her own business.
South America's drugs frontline
Pedro Juan Caballero :: Paraguay | 3 days ago
Credibility Candido Figueredo sits on his bullet-riddled porch holding the tools of his trade: a reporter's notepad, a mobile phone and a black 9mm submachine gun. "I'm a rare species of journalist," admits Figueredo, the regional correspondent of Paraguay 's largest...
Tags: Tom Phillips Candido Figueredo, Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguayan, South American, Brazilian, Mariano Baez, Paraguay, Slums, Amambay Department, Drug lord, Brazilian society, Favela, Poverty
Dozens homeless in slum dispute
Nairobi :: Kenya | 5 days ago
Credibility A fight over a stolen television set in a Nairobi slum escalated into a full-scale confrontation on Monday night, which left about 50 families homeless after their houses were razed to the ground. The Nation learnt from residents of Mathare 3A that skirmishes...
Tags: Muoroto, Kenya, Nairobi, Mathare, Slums, Development, Poverty
Notes on the Police Attack on the Pemary Ridge
Durban :: South Africa | 6 days ago
Credibility In the hours that followed, the police tore through the settlement, kicking down doors, issuing beatings with fists, batons, and even household items. The police shot, at random, with live ammunition, within close range of people and their homes...Before...
Tags: abahlali basemjondolo, Sydenham Police Station, Abahlali, live ammunition, police officer, medical attention, bush, Pemary Ridge Eleven, Philani Zungu, police attack, South Africa, Durban, Politics of South Africa, Social movements, Shack, Slums, Squatters, Political movements, Law Crime
KENYA: Foreigners in Their Homeland
Nairobi :: Kenya | 8 days ago
Credibility Resistance to a government scheme to upgrade housing in Nairobi's Kibera slum is enmeshed in economics, history and identity. Apart from being university-educated, a rarity amongst his Nubi ethnic group, Adam Hussein says his story could be the story...
Tags: Kibera, nubians community, Kenyan High Court, id cards, Adam Hussein, kenyans nubians, Nairobi, upgrade project, Ahmed Ramadhan, Nubian Council of Elders, Kenya, Urban decay, Homelessness, Shanty town, Squatting, Slums, Poverty
Favela leaves a legacy for loved ones
Nogales :: AZ :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Her replacement�”Doug Odum, who has coaching experience oozing out of his veins�”was there, so the team seems to be in good hands. But, not seeing Favela was like the first time not seeing her predecessor, Jeanne Coil, who was with the program so long...
Tags: Andre Favela, Yvette Favela, Diego, Nogales, Poverty, Cru, allnews, Slums, Brazilian society, Favela
Guns, drugs and Jesus
Cape Town :: South Africa | 9 days ago
Credibility I control 15 communities,” boasted the druglord as his shiny 4x4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva (28), better known by the nickname Spiderman. The words “Jesus” and “Christ”...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Spiderman, assault rifle, da coreia, Coreia, complexo da, South Africa, Cape Town, Favela, Poverty, Slums, Brazilian society
The Tearing Down of Migrant Slums
In Kunming, Yunnan there has been a movement to tear down and force migrant workers out of the slum areas they reside in currently. This major shift is causing a lot of migrant families to be left with little to no options for housing. The rental rates...
Tags: Migrant, slums, homes destroyed
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