Nairobi, Kenya Imagine, for a moment, that the nearest bathroom to your house is half-a-mile away. And that, after dark, making the 20-minute trip would mean you cross paths with men out to rape any women they can find. This, according to Amnesty International, is the...
Four weeks of wall-to-wall football matches may not be everyone's idea of top TV. But, between games, the coverage of the 2010 World Cup on the BBC has also included some interesting programmes about the poverty faced by millions of South Africans. And while Alan...
It wasn't a big game by local standards. St John's versus the National Youth Congress in a friendly. It didn't even merit a mention on the chalkboards of the nearby video shacks - the barometer of status in the football-mad slums of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and...
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A sprawling slum in Kumasi, popularly called "Abinkyi slum", has been demolished by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). The slum, which is also known as Sodom and Gomorrah, is located close to the offices of the CocoaWaste Buying Company and the Ashanti Regional...
Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers continued an assault into the capital's most violent slums on Tuesday, hunting for weapons and battling die-hard defenders of a...
The Jamaica Gleaner, Ian Allen In this photo taken Thursday, May 20, 2010, a demonstrator displays a cardboard with a message in support of Christopher "Dudus" Coke during a march in Kingston. Jamaican Police have an arrest warrant for "Dudus", who allegedly leads one...
The Jamaica Gleaner Alleged druggang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke is shown in this undated photo. Jamaican Police have an arrest warrant for "Dudus", who is sought by U.S. authorities on drug and arms trafficking charges but residents in West Kingston neighborhoods...
