At his barbershop carved into the steep flank of a Rio hillside slum, Jose do Carmo dos Santos used to cut the hair of the neighborhood's drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow ...

American entrepreneur and business owner Robert Kiyosaki said in an interview, "America is going to be the poorest country in the world, starting now." Kiyosaki, known for his book "Rich Dad Poor Dad, ...

Every month, Jenifer Wangari (not her real name) has to choose between purchasing food and taking her three children to school. She stays in Kibera, one of the poorest slums in Nairobi. She and her ...

Most of us couldn’t hang with William T. Vollmann’s approach to tourism. The man lingers in the poorest slums of the world’s poorest nations until he’s sampled that region’s most devastating drugs, ...

ABUJA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents skyrocket in more salubrious parts ...

SHOFCO CEO Kennedy Odede engages with a SWEP member at the inauguration of the Bondo SUN Community Centre in Siaya County, Kenya. I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest in Africa. My mom never ...