Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen roar through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above the lagoon in the ...

Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda’s capital, ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating ...

Makoko is a vast floating community built on stilts above the water in Lagos, Nigeria. Often called the “Venice of Africa,” ...

Welcome to one of Africa’s most chaotic and fascinating places - where homes, markets, and seafood factories all float on water. In this raw and unfiltered experience, I dive into the heart of this ...

China's role in Africa is shifting from state-owned enterprise-led infrastructure to private consumer goods. Surge in Chinese exports and small entrepreneurs targeting Africa's growing consumer market ...

Mapi Gloricien lies in his mother’s arms in a hospital in Kinshasa, among the fastest-growing cities on Earth. Just days old, he’s one of an estimated 4.5 million children expected to be born in the ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa. By Howard W. French and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Derek Arthur Africa is ...

ABSTRACT: Predicting knowledge of tuberculosis (TB) could imply several significant changes in the management, control and prevention of this disease. These would be based on advanced technological ...

WSJ explains how the Trump administration is able to provide $20 billion to Argentina and why it is propping up an ideological ally. Photo: Ksenia Shaikhutdinova/WSJ BUENOS AIRES—For decades, the poor ...

Sanitation is a major challenge in the informal settlements in Nairobi and other towns. Lack of it is not just uncomfortable for households, but it also exposes the slum dwellers to the risk of ...