More than half of Nigeria's residents live in slum settlements, according to the 2015/2016 Slum Almanac.
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" On the project's website, the Amsterdam-based pair refer to the 2009 New York Times article "Taking the Slum Out of Slum.
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"Since the government gets almost nothing in revenue from the slum, it therefore pays the least interest to its [slum] developments too," Aleemuddin said.
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You could live in a slum, but McDermott knew how to turn your slum into a beautiful place with nothing, a can of paint.
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Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable, as they often live in informal settlements, said Isaac Selva, founder of Slum Jagatthu, a non-profit magazine on slum dwellers in Bangalore.
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Dharavi has featured in several Bollywood movies, as well as the Academy award-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2009), which triggered a wave of slum tours and criticism of slum voyeurism.
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OPP has worked with slum dwellers to develop low-lying homes in Orangi Town - the 8,000-acre (3,200 hectare) Karachi neighborhood widely cited as Asia's largest slum - since 1982.
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Nine in 10 slum-dwellers in Dhaka were born outside the capital, while one-fifth are poor, according to initial results of a 2016 urban slum survey conducted by the World Bank.
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If property is mapped, developers often pay slum dwellers for land they occupy, then borrow against the land to finance housing construction and sell or rent housing to the former slum dwellers.
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Especially not in the violent slum area of Baixada Fluminense.
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I didn't want to normalize their experience of slum life.
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But slum residents worry it is too little, too late.
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I visited Lebanon, stopping in Beirut and the Shatila slum.
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The artist depicted an inner London slum ravaged by drunkenness.
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Tutti was still living in a slum a year ago.
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But for many slum dwellers, that is not an option.
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"The message from the slum dwellers is clear," he said.
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Although some cities have sold land to slum-dwellers or collectives for redevelopment, that process is often lengthy and leaves residents in limbo for years - while conditions in the slum become more hazardous, experts said.
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STAMFORD BRIDGE, home to Chelsea football club, is hardly a slum.
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Most migrants to the slum are single; over half are women.
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The slum gets street lights, paved lanes and regular garbage collection.
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Most slum dwellers scrape by on informal work in their neighbourhoods.
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The authorities have no respect for the people from the slum.
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On Monday, thousands of opposition supporters protested in a Kinshasa slum.
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Mongolia's postal service, which has trouble reaching slum dwellers and nomads.
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He estimates that the small slum has about 143 gang members.
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"Lindsay Forming Group to Assist Slum Businesses," the morning newspaper yawned.
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There is no other bakery close to the slum, Barros said.
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A law student played alongside a man from the nearby slum.
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Living in the slum, he doesn't even have a mailing address.
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But my mind keeps returning to the slum dwellers I met.
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Tamil Nadu, the most urbanised major state in the country with nearly half its 78 million people living in cities, was among the first states to create a Slum Clearance Act and a Slum Clearance Board.
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In the slum of Pasay City, young children often ask for money.
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The incident occurred in a Rio de Janeiro slum over the weekend.
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The Block by Block program was launched in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum.
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Nirmala's threat notwithstanding, slum-dwellers whose marriages collapse seldom bother with divorce.
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SARAH WANGARI'S home in Mathare, a slum in Nairobi, is hardly spacious.
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In 2012 part of the slum was indeed demolished by the authorities.
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"A welfare slum motel" and "a gypsy project," one woman calls it.
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"For me it was like Kolkata, this was a slum," he recalled.
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At one point, a slum fire burned down his family's wooden home.
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The slum is home to an array of ethnicities, religions and languages.
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Pardiggle, in "Bleak House," distributing improving literature to the slum-dwelling poor.
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Marvin, who came from Richmond's slum, changed the way he carried himself.
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" The others, he averred, were chiefly "slum dwellers, criminals and juvenile delinquents.
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A municipal wall in a Mumbai slum killed 21 when it fell.
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Riding through the city by auto rickshaw, she passed an enormous slum.
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This epidemic took root not in a slum, but a modern city.
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And "Victorian Slum House" thrusts willing participants into 19th-century London squalor.
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Manuel Antonio Noriega was born in a Panama City slum on Feb.
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Slum landlords in litigation could be forced to turn over their properties.
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Odinga cast his vote in the Kibera slum, one of his strongholds.
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Nigerian Slum and Informal Settlement Federation, an NGO working with slum communities, said in October it had identified 40 communities threatened by the eviction plans and said more than 300,000 residents risked being turfed out of their homes.
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The military-controlled, slum-filled Quarantine Zone in Boston is clearly Tess's town.
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New Delhi (CNN)Ravidas in New Delhi is a slum like no other.
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Evans' passion to change the world began one night in a Philippines slum.
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Odinga voted in Kibera, Kenya's biggest slum, but left without speaking to supporters.
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Bridge opened its first school in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2009.
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Now, she lives in this former chicken coop in Navotas's Market 3 slum.
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Critics say upscale areas have been favored at the expense of slum dwellers.
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He found his calling, though, when he began volunteering in a Lisbon slum.
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Her options of escaping the slum during the coronavirus outbreak are looking bleak.
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Her death led to riots in the Nairobi slum where she had lived.
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High levels of poverty, however, are putting slum communities at risk of disasters.
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Miriam Bravo plays with her baby in her shack in a Caracas slum.
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The first, and more powerful, is Elzhi, a onetime member of Slum Village.
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AT KICOSHEP SCHOOL in Kibera, a vast Nairobi slum, Grade 3 is learning English.
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Cocaine fetched premium prices, while its production leftovers wreaked havoc among young slum dwellers.
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Life is similarly cheap in Saikat Mojumder's 2009 series Life: Born in a Slum.
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Few strangers stray inside the slum, or favela, where the gangs impose their law.
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Born Robert Kyagulanyi, Mr Wine speaks for many of Kampala's roughly 20163m slum dwellers.
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You didn't think Bezdaddy was going to slum around in a Patagonia, did you?
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This is particularly relevant as the government's Smart Cities plan risks hastening slum evictions.
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"Accessing water and electricity is a big problem for us slum dwellers," said Ibrahim.
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The illness may be dengue fever, a viral infection common in the surrounding slum.
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I only feel safe in this slum, at least we know each other here.
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Now, after years of war and neglect it is nothing but a generalized slum.
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His father worked as a tailor's presser and the family lived in slum conditions.
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But with no other options, slum dwellers like Bangura returned as quickly as possible.
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The government insists that its operations in Caracas' slum areas are directed against gangs.
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Slum dwellers are among those worst-affected by poor energy access, the report said.
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Video footage showed heavy plumes of smoke billowing all around the congested slum area.
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She's not a legal resident, like the majority of people living in the slum.
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And Mukuru slum - located on the outskirts of eastern Nairobi - lays bare these stark inequalities.
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"I jumped into this race only for my community," says Shahzada, looking around the slum.
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In these photographs, the city doesn't exist despite the slum — it produces and complements it.
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Microlending shows that villagers and slum-dwellers are pretty good judges of each others' finances.
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Between 1990 and 2014, the continent's slum population more than doubled, to some 200m people.
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But the slow pace of implementation is leaving thousands homeless as slum dwellers are evicted.
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Remember when Clinton accused Barack Obama of getting his back rubbed by a slum lord?
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The slum areas were some of the hardest hit especially in the suburb of Saidapet.
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"Believe in your dreams," De Oliveira said in a message to Brazil's slum-dwelling children.
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Inside Lyari - once the deadliest slum of Karachi - notorious for religious gangs and violent extremism.
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"Sellin' slum behind the door," he said, using the slang for exchanging insults and threats.
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They are willing to slum as costumed hunter-gatherers between summer getaways to the Continent.
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But for India's slum dwellers, it's an impossible task, Priyali Sur and Esha Mitra report.
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Residents of the slum and activists protest outside the 18th Arrondissement city hall on Monday.
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There was a rumor that a resident of the nearby slum was diagnosed with coronavirus.
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Modern apartment blocks in Germany were contrasted with slum photography from the Lower East Side.
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When the city bulldozed the slum for a golf park, life changed for the worse.
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Guida finds a home in a vibrant slum, finds friends there, puts together a life.
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Today, they live in a small one bedroom home in a slum west of Accra.
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Serrano, 21, lives in the impoverished, violent slum of La Dolorita, where I met her.
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It felt like an anointment, not just of Yancey but of his group, Slum Village.
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Biking on the slum streets of Vietnam, he is treated like he abandoned his country.
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Archaelogists dig up ancient Egyptian statue in Cairo slum Archaelogists dig up ancient Egyptian statue in Cairo slum A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists uncovered a 26-foot statue on Thursday that may be of Pharaoh Ramses II, one of Egypt's most famous rulers.
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The movie - shot in Mumbai - features slum dwellers picking through rubbish, abandoned children preparing drugs to earn their keep and homes made from corrugated iron alongside wealthy Indians attending posh parties, modern skyscrapers and a group of camera-wielding British tourists visiting a slum.
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However, the project received a setback when the slum was ravaged by a fire on Jan.
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In the slum area of Manshiyet Nasser, 36-year-old Eid Kamal orders delivery every day.
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Damian Marley, Goldie, and Detroit stalwarts Slum Village are some of the biggest names to feature.
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And new housing is often too expensive or isolated from services for slum residents to benefit.
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Recently Mr Pograwa offered to help immigrants whose homes had been demolished in a slum clearance.
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The funds will be used for the home, schooling and healthcare of street and slum kids.
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A woman holds a sparkler during New Year celebrations in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
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But Betsy Chumo, who runs a play-based centre in a Nairobi slum, finds parents sceptical.
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His supporters see the former slum-dweller as one of them—a champion from their streets.
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They do it in plastic bags and fling them through the air in narrow slum alleyways.
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When 10,000 people were uprooted in Kibera, a slum, last July, riot police flanked the bulldozers.
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But the former slum-dweller trounced Ms Sirleaf's son, Robert, in a senate election in 2014.
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He also noted that slum-like conditions in Brazil help fuel the spread of Zika there.
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In Shashi Garden, a slum near the centre of Delhi, live two newlyweds, Shazia and Subobh.
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Himself a Mathare native, Omwanda understands the challenges faced by those who call the slum home.
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Ministry of health officials agree more needs to be done to improve nutrition among slum residents.
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In other words, she's perfect for spreading disease in any bustling, overpopulated, tropical city or slum.
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The area was a slum at the time, and it was close to the theater district.
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He was a rapper, too — a member of Slum Village — but not best known for that.
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In 220006, Mitra placed a computer with internet access in a wall in an Indian slum.
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Hundreds of shanties were destroyed in the Rupnagar slum in the city's Mirpur area, witnesses said.
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Workers at risk The next reason slum-dwellers cannot isolate is simple: they need to work.
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Part of the proposed capital, far from Jerusalem's holy sites, would encompass a gang-ridden slum.
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Matador showed me the Thiaroye slum, where he grew up and began rapping with his pals.
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But slum-dwelling parents in Kenya are mostly occasional workers who rarely have a predictable income.
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Flaco grew up in a Nogales slum called Buenos Aires, which has produced generations of smugglers.
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For years, they told the Air Force of questionable record keeping and slum-like living conditions.
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But if none of that sounds appealing, you can take a guided tour of a slum.
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In 2015, at least 100 people in a Mumbai-area slum were killed, and in 2008, in one of the largest incidents of this kind in recent decades, more than 170 people died after drinking an illicit home brew in slum areas of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
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"He is a rich man, but he knows what life is like for slum people," he says.
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She went on to visit Dharavi, Asia's largest slum and home to more than a million people.
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Related: In One Uganda Slum, Gambling Is a Prudent Financial Investment This is (arguably) a good thing.
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Nevertheless, she warned that cities would "become paralyzed" if slum-dwellers returned to their place of origin.
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Anti-riot police attempt to disperse protesters in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 229.
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Kenyan security services say he was later killed in a gunfight with police in a Nairobi slum.
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A critical feature of Ahmedabad's HAP is checking on vulnerable populations including the homeless and slum dwellers.
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A room in a slum, without dependable electricity or clean water, can go for $100 a month.
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Residents of two different slum districts say they get piped water for a few minutes a day.
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Some states are improving slum conditions, and assuring residents they will not be evicted for some years.
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Nearby are many colonias, unincorporated slum-like areas where the poor live, lacking running water and sewerage.
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Georgia's redevelopment plan allowed the city to declare Mill Hill a "slum," making it eligible for rehabilitation.
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"The whole slum is messy because the cartels do not do their job as expected," said Akim.
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""Young drug traffickers pose for photos holding their guns at a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Rashid, by contrast, is seen as brutal but mysterious and incorruptible, a sort of slum Judge Dredd.
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He tours a dilapidated initial build site with a single luxury apartment, surrounded by sub-slum squalor.
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The three connecting bridges from the vast slum districts on the mainland are jammed until late morning.
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One of the potential flashpoints, and an area that is being closely watched, is the Kibera slum.
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The Red Cross said one person was killed during opposition demonstrations in Nairobi's Mathare slum on Thursday.
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Developers filed an application to destroy the last remaining example of Victorian slum housing in Leicester, England.
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"Understanding such a place solely by the generic term 'slum' ignores its complexity and dynamism," they wrote.
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I reported from slum riots and carnival parades in Rio and from tumultuous election rallies in Venezuela.
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Another issue is that many of the children living in the slum are enrolled in neighborhood schools.
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People from some of the wealthier areas of the city would most likely call it a slum.
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Duran Barba acknowledged that Macri's austerity measures had particularly hurt poor slum-dwellers in Buenos Aires province.
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In February 2013, residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi used it to redesign a sports field.
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Trump at one point characterized San Francisco as "worse than a slum" because of its homeless population.
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The wall blocks the view of a slum from the route President Trump traveled during his visit.
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He would gladly have lived in a slum himself, but he didn't want his family to suffer.
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Like one on a moving friendship in a Nairobi slum between two boys, one with spina bifida.
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The co-financed projects are a slum renovation in Indonesia and highway construction in Pakistan and Tajikistan.
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In Nairobi's Kibera slum, vendors set up their shops and residents went about their day as normal.
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Bags made with plant fiber like sisal can help the slum battle its plastics problem, he said.
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"Slum dwellers are citizens of this country and they make a contribution to the city," he said.
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It was a rough, polyglot slum, buildings decaying and pavements strewn with the fragments of shattered windshields.
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The city ordered the eviction after expressing concern over the sanitary and security conditions inside the slum.
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Otieno is from Kibera, a sprawling and densely populated slum in Nairobi and the largest in Africa.
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"I want to become a poet and a professor so I can help children in the slum because slum is an identity not a destiny," Rose, who acts as leader of the girls in the safe house and bounds in with confidence and optimism, announces in perfect English.
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Police and drug gangs had been in a firefight in the northern Rio slum where the woman lives.
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When he visits a city like Lagos in Nigeria, he visits both the ambassador and the Makoko slum.
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Men and women out working are called back to the slum if a tanker is scheduled to arrive.
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But on the crowded streets of a Manila slum, no one was calling this number of killings justified.
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"Many people consider this place a slum," explains Mary Ann O'Donnell, an American expert on Shenzhen's urban villages.
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Hubei is not heaven, but any slum-dweller in Caracas or Mumbai would love to live like this.
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We demonstrated this at a low-income Teach for India school in a tiny, crowded slum in Mumbai.
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Kenyan police have used tear gas in an attempt to disperse crowds in the Nairobi slum of Kawangware.
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Five miles away Chelmsley Wood, whose tower blocks absorbed Birmingham's post-war slum clearances, was 72% for Leave.
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IN KIBERA, a slum in the south of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, the tyres were burning by mid-afternoon.
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Residents from the nearby San Agustín slum had heard that a drainage pipe was leaking into the stream.
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" He says they're "trying to follow in the musical eclecticism of Slum Village, TDE artists, Odd Future, etc.
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The family endured "slum-type living conditions" in the apartment, according to the complaint, including a cockroach infestation.
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These changes, in the name of slum clearance and poverty alleviation, altered the aesthetics of American cities forever.
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Born in Kibera, Kenya's largest slum, the everyday problems that Malika and her friends talk about are harrowing.
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And cheaper still for the slum-dwellers and country boys pressed into service as professional Muay Thai boxers.
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Their task was to remove debris from the place, formally a village but in reality an urban slum.
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Young men poured into the streets of a slum in Nairobi, gleefully carrying huge, jagged pieces of concrete.
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Three people were injured in the blaze that struck a congested slum in Mirpur town on Friday night.
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"The city of Kampala and the slum of Katwe are themselves characters in the movie," Ms. Nair said.
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Non-governmental groups like Slum Dwellers International (SDI) are also doing useful work at grassroots level, said Odendaal.
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Somehow the two opposites merged where the cacophony of visual chaos of the slum became my beautiful muse.
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Horses were everywhere in the slum, tied to trees and their troughs lining alleys like equine parking lots.
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Sia, a slum dweller and migrant construction worker in Gurugram, near New Delhi, wakes up at 5 a.m.
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Most women from the construction site slum wash together there every morning and collect water for the day.
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For the next two years, he lived in an East London slum with one of Sarah's former maids.
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Every winter, when Mumbai is dry, the police come with wrecking crews and rip down countless slum homes.
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In 2014, the homes of at least 2,500 families in the slum were destroyed in a predawn blaze.
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"Selection Day" is about teenage brothers, Radha and Manju, who live with their father in a Mumbai slum.
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In Ahmedabad, a wall at least six feet high in places will block a slum from Trump's view.
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Indie game developer Pedro Oliveira grew up in the Chelas slum and experienced the downside to its destruction.
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One of these schools was Bridge Diamond in Mukuru, a slum of 600,000, just east of central Nairobi.
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In 2007, Acurio had founded a culinary school in a slum near Lima and then hired its graduates.
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Emergency services, such as the fire brigade, can now also access the slum much more easily, he added.
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A Mutare-based housing expert, David Mutambirwa, said new slum settlements had mushroomed in the city since 2014.
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The slum, which contains 60 makeshift homes, is built along the Petite Ceinture, a historic, abandoned rail track.
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The Democrats were certainly hoping for more of a slum dunk in order to ... although, there's plenty there.
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An Afghan refugee child uses a handmade wooden walker outside of her home in a Pakistan "slum" on Jan.
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Lion's central character, though adopted by a middle-class Australian couple, has roots deep in a slum in India.
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In the Caracas slum of La Vega, Jose Vasquez, 49, described the election as too unfair to warrant participation.
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Nine people died earlier this week when a fire swept through a slum in the coastal city of Chittagong.
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The people most affected were poor residents of slum areas and river shanties who rely on fetid river water.
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Babiru is set in a massively over congested slum riddled with robotic vehicles, armed insurgents, and relics of industry.
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For the poor living in densely populated slum areas it is harder to avoid getting bitten, some experts say.
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Since the razing of the Otodo Gbame slum, many of the homeless have demonstrated outside the state governor's office.
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Despite their pleas, and opposition from rights groups, the state has adopted a hard line stance towards slum dwellers.
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Many people are going to the countryside; others have moved within the slum to be closer to their kinsfolk.
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Even the child actors in the film were scouted from "orphanages, circuses and slum schools," according to Vanity Fair.
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In Bhubaneswar, campaigners say about 13,000 slum dwellers will be evicted, many of whom will also lose their livelihoods.
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Yet slum dwellers have long opposed efforts to relocate them to distant suburbs which limit their access to jobs.
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Initially Jacobs parroted the wisdom of the day, writing about the importance of centralized planning and praising slum clearing.
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Evictions of slum dwellers have already been seen in about a third of the planned smart cities, she said.
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This is an era of unprecedented urban growth, much of it informal, which is to say illegal slum development.
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Cities are job hubs and proximity to employment has long been a major driver of slum development and expansion.
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Widely cited as Asia's largest slum, it sprawls over 2026,2807 acres - the equivalent of about 21.26,21.2 Wembley football pitches.
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In the process, many large slum properties have fallen into the hands of developers with access to foreign capital.
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Authorities have said slum residents will be resettled in two townships more than an hour's drive from central Yangon.
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As I looked at the official delegation making their way across the slum, I struggled to hold back tears.
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Officials razed part of a slum near the city's main port in 2013, forcing 9,000 people from their homes.
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Military police entered the Vila do Joao neighborhood of the slum on Thursday to attempt to apprehend three suspects.
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For residents reared on some of the worst slum conditions in Europe, life in the towers seemed like luxury.
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One day I pulled up into a little bar and I heard someone about the cemetery slum in Manila.
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Many of these slum-dwellers lack access to clean water and sanitation and are at constant risk of eviction.
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In the slum of Burmi Colony, many residents spoke of being forbidden by the police to leave to fish.
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"I support those working to improve the slums ... to bring hope to the lives of slum dwellers," Macarthy added.
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She got the key to her two-roomed house in April 2016, enabling her to leave the Nyalenda slum.
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The video is set in a storied Puerto Rican slum called La Perla and features a joyously multiracial cast.
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"I'm not going to have my wife living in a slum — she's going to get a garden," KaRon said.
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The new brick wall obscured the homes of 2,000 people living in the slum, according to the Associated Press.
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"They're constantly fatigued," Ponce, 56, said from her home in a hillside slum in La Oroya, blaming the smelter.
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He turns into a drug-dealer in a slum, before taking revenge on the father who killed his mother.
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It has evolved into a slum with migrants and volunteers like Lawrie helping to build lean-tos and shops.
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Some of the residents previously resided in the Samaritain slum, which was dismantled by the police in the summer.
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Old neighbours in a slum in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, said before she Old neighbours in a slum in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, said before she left to find work in Malaysia, she had lived a quiet life, working from home in her ex-husband's family tailoring business before the couple separated in 2012.
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Local authorities will grant the land on which the homes will be built on to the slum-dwellers, she said.
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Yet Suto Orizari - born after the 1963 earthquake destroyed Roma homes in the centre - defies outsiders' tag as a "slum".
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West Point is a slum, home to 22016,210 people who live in densely packed houses cobbled together from roofing tin.
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Still, it acknowledged work by some organizations, such as Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), to try to make that happen.
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Aravena's architectural practice, Elemental, was praised by the Pritzker Prize jury for its decade-long work consulting with slum dwellers.
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After running away from home, he began to live in a slum selling magazines and working in a tea stall.
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An opposition supporter holds charred wood from a burning barricade in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 225.
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Travels to the Philippines with World Vision, where he stays the night in a Manila slum and meets Sonny Boy.
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That is what happened in April to a robber caught stealing a television in a slum in Nigeria's commercial capital.
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Then again, back home I wasn't loitering in some notorious, off the map, slum area with intent to Thai box.
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Gray said during the pageant that working in a Manila slum had taught her to find beauty in difficult situations.
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More specifically, it's about Phiona Mutesi, a world-famous chess player who grew up in the Ugandan slum of Katwe.
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A study by the ministry of health found that slum-heavy townships were worst affected by waterborne ailments, like tuberculosis.
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You guys slum it over here, I guess at the old sustainable home that was Facebook, or still is Facebook.
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DORO SUASIN was cheerful and couldn't hurt a fly, say his neighbours in Pil-homes, a slum near Manila's airport.
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When Shah returned to Karachi following the games, a near homeless man from a slum had become a national hero.
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MONROVIA, Liberia — I grew up in the Gibraltar area of Clara Town, a slum in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
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Violence also broke out in Nairobi's slum of Mathare, where tear gas and gunshots rang out all night, witnesses said.
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His set is the dusty yard outside his home in Wakaliga, a slum that sometimes has month-long power cuts.
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" Ravi Tripptrap, Malteser International Americas' executive director: "The floods have been particularly damaging in the slum community of Cité Soleil.
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We know this area used to be a slum district but now it looks so beautiful after the colorful makeover.
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While back on a family visit, he was assassinated in the Market 3 slum in Navotas, where his family lives.
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The movie is based on a true story about a girl from a Ugandan slum who becomes a chess champion.
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We went to that particular slum to talk to girls who had dropped out of school because they'd been married.
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In the Freetown slum of Susan's Bay 17-year-old Adja cradled her baby in a shack in the rain.
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"We come together to build our own original, unique sounds that reflect the daily experiences of slum dwellers," said Abibo.
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For the teens in Kawangware, a slum in west Nairobi, the classes are something they look forward to each week.
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If you live in a slum, your child might go to a school run by a bunch of do-gooders.
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"I lost hope," he said on a recent morning near his home in Kibera, an urban slum southwest of Nairobi.
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Television footage showed children sleeping on sidewalks along streets near the slum, as health workers distributed food and other supplies.
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"Whenever ministers visit the area, they hide it with temporary green curtains," a resident of the slum told the BBC.
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It had been frustrated in its efforts to work with the chairman of the mayor's slum clearance committee, Robert Moses.
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"We want them to be given time to move," said lawyer Soyinka Lempaa, who is representing about 300 slum residents.
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I remember Jennifer (it's a pseudonym), 21, who was 33 weeks pregnant, living in Kibera, an urban slum in Nairobi.
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Take Delhi's Sanjay Camp slum, where only a fractured partition separates the men and women's stalls in its toilet complex.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - It all started with a rumor: the Mungiki, a dreaded Kikuyu tribal militia, had infiltrated Nairobi's Kawangware slum.
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Several dozen officers from the National Police's Special Action Force (FAES) drove into the slum in armored vehicles and on motorcycles.
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In Ravidas slum, Jahan said she considers the challenge of shifting people's attitudes towards their trash habits her purpose in life.
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"It's very difficult to live like this," said Fatima Bibi, 210, who is in charge of organizing water for the slum.
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In Kibera, another Nairobi slum where the government has built smart apartments nearby, they are lived in by middle-class newcomers.
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Some slum residents might be one or two generations out of slavery, said Sow, but have little to show for it.
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Alphonse is one 30,000 residents of the Otodo Gbame slum who were left homeless last month when their community was razed.
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The bank has previously co-financed projects such as a slum renovation in Indonesia and highway construction in Pakistan and Tajikistan.
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Despite this, the Mathare Foundation endures, and serves as a chance for children from the slum can meet like-minded people.
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New schools, public libraries, open-air gyms and landscaped parks have been built in once once-neglected, no-go slum areas.
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In the Kibera slum in Nairobi, a community leader who runs a local NGO said protests have now spread there too.
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Over time, he was joined by more than 1,000 volunteers including local Versova residents, slum-dwellers, politicians, Bollywood celebrities and schoolchildren.
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The projects, announced previously, are power grid upgrades in Bangladesh, slum renovation in Indonesia and highway construction in Pakistan and Tajikistan.
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Those operations come as authorities seek to confront drug gangs that control many of Brazil&aposs slum networks known as favelas.
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Many also blame slum residents for throwing trash into the canals and blocking the waterways, calling for them to be evicted.
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FROM HIS SHACK in Kangemi, a slum at the western edge of Nairobi, Gilbert Onduko sells bare essentials to his neighbours.
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The problem has been that connecting to the grid, and paying the bills, is beyond the means of most slum-dwellers.
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The cemetery lies in the midst of the Vila Operaria slum, where tightly packed red-brick buildings cascade down the hillside.
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Bridge charges $6 a month in tuition — well out of range for a slum dweller living on a dollar a day.
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It is not clear if the round came from the weapon of a soldier or was fired from a nearby slum.
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She moved in for a while with Peter Rachman, the most notorious slum landlord in London, who showered her with diamonds.
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"Developing slum land is the only way to build in Mumbai now," Mehta told the Indian business newspaper Mint in 2008.
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There, at an enormous landfill, thousands of slum-dwellers support their families by sifting through trash to find things to sell.
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They include Map Kibera, which began as a free, open digital map of Africa's largest slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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I originally guessed SPAM/SLUM, but then I wouldn't have been able to get CLEAVER/CADAVER, which crosses at the end.
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In Teluk Gong, a riverside slum along the Angke Bawah River in North Jakarta, residents have dealt with flooding for years.
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In Bangladesh, the City App aims to bring services to the most affected areas of a large and flood-prone slum.
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In 1998 he stayed with a family that lived in a Manila slum, befriending Sonny Boy, a teen about his age.
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This LG collaboration would be aimed directly at photo and video editors who don't want to slum it with an iMac.
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She needs to walk 100 meters (328 feet) to a water tank that serves her slum of 70 migrant construction workers.
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She lives on the second floor of a slum house in Mumbai, up a narrow metal ladder, like on a ship.
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It was to be the ignored rural and slum-dwelling Sunni who were to form the hard core of the insurgency.
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Mr. Weah, who was born in Clara Town, a Monrovia slum, reminded a stadium crowd of his rags-to-riches story.
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Visiting the "Petite Ceinture" camp Monday, VICE News found many of the residents preparing for the impending dismantlement of the slum.
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Mr. Joko, a former furniture seller who was born in a slum, has risen to the top of Indonesia's political sphere.
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During his teenage years in the 1980s, he shared a bedroom with 10 other boys in West Point, Monrovia's largest slum.
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During periods of rain and drought, slum dwellers often store water in buckets and collect rain water in roof-top tanks.
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The fire broke out Friday evening at the Chalantika slum in Dhaka's Mirpur district on the northern outskirts of the city.
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Whereas Trump spoke of "American carnage" in his dystopian inauguration speech, Moore calls the country a "moral slum" awaiting God's judgment.
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The home has stood alone, apart from the rest of the slum, since a fire swept through the neighborhood one evening.
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The Elvis of early minstrelsy, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, was a son of Irish immigrants from the neighborhood's infamous Five Points slum.
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It took the deaths of her husband and son to force authorities to supply it to the slum she calls home.
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On a recent Friday night in Don Bosco, a neighborhood in Tondo, eight policemen on motorcycles patrolled the densely packed slum.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - A massive fire ripped through a slum on Wednesday in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless.
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Acuña speaks from a modest public kitchen her nonprofit runs in Ciudad Oculta, or Hidden City, a slum in southern Buenos Aires.
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The substance is cheap and widely available in Ciudad Oculta and almost every slum in Argentina and other parts of South America.
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Most of the people living in the slum called Arakanabad were born in Pakistan, or fled violence in their homeland decades ago.
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Police are also investigating how a stray bullet hit the equestrian center on Saturday, which they said came from a nearby slum.
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In Uganda, a pack of pads costs you one U.S. dollar, which is a daily income in a slum area in Kampala.
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Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 20053 rupees a day with the help of a local charity.
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However, the Tompkinsville neighborhood where Garner lived and died suffers from the blight more common to slum areas of New York City.
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People were cramming into cities, the drying grounds and hedges were receding, and clotheslines criss-crossed like cats' cradles between slum windows.
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Roberto Figueroa Caballero sits in his wall-less home in the seaside slum La Perla, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Oct.
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A slum dwellers' association in each settlement liaises with officials and a designated charity on the data and the applications for titles.
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Slum-dwellers have long opposed efforts by authorities to relocate them to distant suburbs, which limits their access to jobs and amenities.
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I'm kickboxing in a Bangkok slum whilst my friends back home in England and America are living a normal, yet boring life.
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In the early part of the 20th century, the area was home to slum districts and housed several generations of immigrant families.
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Or the residents of a notorious Rio slum who watched one of their own win Brazil's first gold, in the judo arena.
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Millions of people lose the services that separate a middle-class suburb from an impoverished slum – clean water, sewers, power, hospitals, roads.
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He has also cut down his kerosene bill by 250 shillings (about $2000) a day—a hefty saving in a Nairobi slum.
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The government does not want the biggest ones to develop the kind of slum-sprawl that is common in other developing countries.
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That means deliberately making the standard cabin uncomfortable, to ensure that the only people who slum it are those with slimmer wallets.
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Lopes ruled Rio's largest and most notorious slum, Rocinha, which sits adjacent to the glamorous city of beaches and bikinis and samba.
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The shopkeepers attacked Hezbollah on national television for inspiring a slum clearance and redevelopment project that deprived them of their meager livelihoods.
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A woman works on bookkeeping using the light of her phone in the Market 3 slum in the Navotas Fish Port Complex.
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"Even a slum is better than this," he said of dwellings in which he claimed workers sometimes live 14 to a room.
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At its Shirin Sultan Dossa branch near a slum on the outskirts of Karachi, one girl is more than holding her own.
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Another four people were killed in the capital's Mathare slum Saturday night, an opposition stronghold, according to Nairobi Police Commander Japheth Koome.
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She noted that police have an arrest warrant for Sergio Silva, the local head of the Red Command gang in the slum.
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Slum residents, for example, build huts but cannot own them, as there is no place and no law that will register them.
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But what's very interesting about the slum that I was in is that it's a stone's throw away from the garment district.
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This horrific policy will threaten the lives of young women like "Aisha," who grew up in extreme poverty in Nairobi's Kibera slum.
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Epic Foundation began the project in May 2016, starting with SNEHA in Dharavi, a slum with a population of approximately 1 million.
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"These sons of whores are destroying our children," Duterte told the audience of about 500 during a visit to a Manila slum.
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"I'm not even that happy with Modi," said Vikas Kumar Sau, a rickshaw driver who complained about slum housing and police harassment.
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In these posts, he redeveloped a notorious slum in his district, set up the Jamaica stock exchange and created Jamaica Citizens Bank.
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Densely populated slum neighborhoods with big families - often sharing one-bedroom homes and beds - creates ideal conditions for disease transmission, scientists say.
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The younger Mr. David, whose family lives in the Tondo slum district in Manila, went missing in January shortly after leaving work.
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Everybody in the vast Arkanabad slum of Karachi has family members who were affected by the government raids that started last month.
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Slum upgrading, rather than demolition and reconstruction, can be a more effective - and less disruptive - way of promoting urban development, experts say.
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In 2012, the Lagos state government announced plans to demolish the slum and gave a 72-hour eviction notice to the residents.
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Upon returning to Liberia, Azango found vulnerable people – slum dwellers, market women, young children – enduring the same traumas that she had experienced.
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They also discovered that some structures in the slum were being used as a disguise for crude oil theft operations, he said.
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KISUMU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The thought of getting old, retiring and still living in a slum used to scare Emma Ochieng.
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The Post reported that city authorities built a large wall to hide from view a slum near the route of Trump's motorcade.
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City authorities have invested millions of dollars to develop and improve the sprawling Villa 245 slum in the heart of Buenos Aires.
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Literally living below ground in a slum of South Korea, they fold pizza boxes for money but still can't afford Wi-Fi.
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However, the app directed them to a notorious slum area in Brazil that had the same street name as the tourist destination.
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One slum formed inside the Ahmedabad dump, a vast landscape of trash and sewage that towered hundreds of feet in the air.
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It provided 33,000 houses with indoor toilets and neat gardens, luxuries to families displaced by postwar slum clearances in London's East End.
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The slum outside the port of Calais had smouldered through the night from countless fires, causing some to flee without their possessions.
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Earlier this year, Marielle Franco, a Rio city councilwoman who was an outspoken critic of police violence against slum residents, was assassinated.
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The night before Musyoka's experience, four police officers killed 21-year-old Kevin Mwangi, just meters away from his home in Mathare slum.
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"If we don't have these small enterprises, it wouldn't be Dharavi," said Jockin Arputham, president of the National Slum Dwellers' Federation in Mumbai.
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Slum residents have filled gap in state provided housing by building their own homes and connecting them to existing electrical and water grids.
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The children of this Nigerian slum did an awesome job contextualizing their world for outside viewers, oftentimes overlapping visual poetry with stark reality.
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"There is a lot of pressure from builders, developers, local leaders," said Jockin Arputham, president of the National Slum Dwellers' Federation in Mumbai.
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In Nigeria the Lagos state government has become notorious for waking up slum-dwellers on the most valuable patches of land with bulldozers.
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The Imperial residential towers in the Tardeo area of Mumbai, pictured, were developed by the company on the site of a former slum.
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Since then, Ramaly has lived in Smor San - a slum built on a cemetery that is still visited by relatives of the deceased.
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But she is counting on the superstitious nature of others to protect the slum community she helped to establish all those years ago.
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Most artists work out of slum studios or, in the case of one collective of young painters, out of an abandoned, dilapidated building.
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Schools and health clinics have been closed since dozens of gang members invaded the city's biggest slum in an attempt to grab territory.
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The contrast between what the charter says and what the slum itself reveals tells you how broken the system is, says one squatter.
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The building, which was once called a "vertical slum" by a Singaporean legislator, is a densely packed mix of residential and commercial units.
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"Many Kenyans are unnecessarily living in slum dwellings, because of limited supply and lack of affordability," the World Bank said in a report.
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To be sure, skill and hard work propelled him from a west African slum to playing for the top teams of European football.
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""A police officer takes position near residents during an operation against drug traffickers at the 'pacified' Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Slum residents and landlords with property in central parts of the city also have objected to being relocated, usually to more distant areas.
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The women in A People's History of Heaven call their neighborhood Heaven – but really, it's a slum nestled between high-rises in Bangalore.
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In El Tapatio, a slum on the outskirts of Mexico's second largest city Guadalajara, economic uncertainty and drug hustling go hand in hand.
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However some academics and slum residents question these promised benefits, saying they have not materialized in slums where residents have won formal ownership.
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Cooper said students sometimes cited violent protests by slum residents or university students that successfully publicized their causes, and sought to emulate them.
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Only a tiny fraction of the Old Nichol's residents were actually allowed to live in the estate their slum had been cleared for.
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Through a friend in Brazil, Parks gained access to the Catacumba Favela, then a notorious slum which was demolished after Parks documented it.
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Without effective transport to reach the city center or opportunities to find work, many slum dwellers ended up working instead for cocaine cartels.
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That apparently left some Model S owners facing an identity crisis about whether they should slum it for one of the newer rides.
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Inuma and most of the Shipibo-Konibo in Lima have agreed to leave temporarily so the Cantagallo slum can be rebuilt as promised.
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The study, released last year, involved subsidizing child care for families at 16 day care facilities in Korogocho, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Video footage showed heavy plumes of smoke billowing all around the slum area, just a few kilometers from the country's main cricket stadium.
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The victims were shot in daylight or at dusk, three of them on the same street in a riverside slum seething with people.
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Eight-year-old Stephanie Moraa was shot by a stray bullet as police fired to disperse protesters in the Nairobi slum of Mathare.
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Shortly before the construction of the I-95 expressway divided and ultimately decimated the neighborhood, public officials pursued a large-scale slum clearance.
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These houses were built on top of each other, it was a slum community that was cramped," Evans told CNBC's "The Brave Ones.
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In the Philippines, community mortgage programs backed by the federal government have benefited some 250,000 slum-dwellers since 1989, according to official data.
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The orchestra is part of the Ghetto Classics music education program, which benefits youth in the slum of Korogocho and other poor areas.
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Although the sea level rose at the edge of Cité Soleil, the city's harbor slum, the water did not breach the central wharf.
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In "Behind the Beautiful Forevers," Katherine Boo focused for nearly three and half years on Annawadi, a "sumpy plug of slum" in Mumbai.
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It was there that 21-year-old Renalto AbAdies, who lives in a slum adjacent to the cemetery, played on a recent evening.
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It's like a very small location but is densely populated, and people refer to it as the largest ghetto or the largest slum.
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Its gates are guarded by police and officials from the mayor's office and only those registered from the old slum are allowed access.
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But one organization has managed to nearly eradicate it in a large slum in Port-au-Prince that lacks clean water and sanitation.
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A staff of local NGO measures a woman's body temperature after installing handwashing stations at the Kibera slum in Nairobi on March 143.
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The slum which was initially just a place to fish has grown to be the home for generations of fishermen from neighboring countries.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Authorities in Nigeria evicted thousands of impoverished residents from a Lagos slum, leaving many homeless, residents and eyewitnesses told CNN.
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A consortium of advocacy groups, including JEI and the Nigeria Slum/Informal Settlement Federation, put the number of displaced persons in the thousands.
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At the Saraniya Vas slum, authorities have built a wall at least six feet high in places, shielding the settlement from Trump's view.
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"Gully Boy," which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, focuses on the life of an aspiring rapper in Mumbai's Dharavi slum.
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Reaction to his decision was mixed, but in the Kibera slum, Nairobi's largest, many expressed relief that they could get back to work.
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Far from utopias, the communities mimic their life-size consumerist counterparts with chain restaurants, while the poor are walled off in a slum.
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Edward Merkior, a veteran vegetable grower, often taps the stream of waste water flowing from a crowded Buguruni slum to water his crops.
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While slum lords, culture wars, and big tobacco have been replaced in today's parlance by gentrification, decolonization, and kleptocracy, Haacke's lessons still apply.
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The visitors found Dr. King in an airless railroad flat in a slum, talking to 19812 or 21960 young gang members about nonviolence.
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One major challenge is working out what is feasible for slum residents who have no legal rights to the land they live on.
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Many of the residents had already left when police entered what charity and aid workers have described as the biggest slum in Paris.
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Often referred to as Africa's largest slum, Kibera is home to up to a million people living side by side in ramshackle homes.
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"There are over 100 million people living in slum conditions in what we call survival mode," says Alexandria Lafci, New Story's cofounder and COO.
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"They're scared," Alfredo Gonzalez, 76, from the 23 de Enero slum, said at the Caracas demonstration as he wore a scarf over his mouth.
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Climate change has pushed thousands of Bangladeshis to flee from the lowland rural areas to the urban slum, in the search for better opportunities.
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"If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself," he told a crowd at a slum in Manila on June 30.
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Getting up to face the day is nothing short of a struggle for those who live in the slum-like settlement of Grande-Synthe.
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The statue, thought to be nearly 3,000 years old, was dug up in a Cairo slum that stands over the ancient city of Heliopolis.
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A woman squeezes against the wall as soldiers patrol an alley during an operation in Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, on Sept. 22.
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George Weah, now the president of Liberia but once his continent's deadliest striker, perfected his shooting with a rag ball in a swampy slum.
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Salsa music floods a studio in the hillside slum of San Agustin as Madera leans into the microphone opening his two-hour talk show.
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In its 104-page ruling, the High Court this week said slum dwellers in Delhi must not be viewed as "encroachers and illegal occupants".
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San Francisco… The city sprawled out under his balcony was a cookie cutter of Slum and Green Zone separated by tense sections of Fringe.
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This was accomplished by bribing the children, who are from "orphanages, circuses, and slum schools" with money and later forcing them to return it.
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The Mathare Social Justice Centre, a community organisation, says it has counted 803 reports of police killings in the slum between 2013 and 2015.
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Inside the slum, a series of main avenues provide some kind of structure amid the thousands of alleyways formed from gaps between the huts.
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We're sitting on a small bench next to a green and brown band stand built from the actual rubble of the Old Nichol slum.
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We need to hear from pregnant women in Brazil, from slum dwellers in El Salvador, and support them in taking individual and collective action.
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" Thousands of people live in slum conditions in the patched-together tents and huts in the camps that make up the so-called "Jungle.
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But just down the road in Nairobi's Kawangware slum, around 100 youths listening to the results on mobile phones chanted "No Raila No Peace".
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He started out buying construction quotas from one of Dalian's three state-owned property developers to develop slum housing - a job nobody else wanted.
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Police said on Sunday at least four people were killed overnight in a Nairobi slum that is a stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga.
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Indonesia's Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the funds would help finance several projects, including improvement of slum areas, electricity transmission and developing Islamic finance.
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A group of fishermen moved to the sandy patch of land next to the heart of Monrovia, and the capital's largest slum was born.
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One journalist at the scene reported that tear gas was fired into a secondary school in the slum where 200 students were in class.
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One of the main inspirations behind the slum-Disneyland aesthetic tone of the park is considered to be American artist and painter Jeff Gillette.
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The post-monsoon months when mosquitoes swarm, particularly in slum areas where there is standing water and accumulating trash, could produce many more infections.
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When that happens, it is almost always the most vulnerable — the slum residents, the migrant workers, the undocumented immigrants — who will suffer the consequences.
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Now he'll have to slum it in Washington, answering to his own angry constituents until it becomes apparent to them that they've been duped.
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India erected a brick wall so President Donald Trump wouldn't see a slum as his motorcade drove through the city of Ahmedabad on Monday.
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Thirty-one residents of the slum of Brabrand in the town of Aarhus left to fight with ISIS in Syria in that time period.
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A woman in one Manila slum told the BBC she was hired by a local police officer to kill five people on his list.
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Thousands of shanties were bulldozed last week in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum and home to some 400,000 people, to make way for a road.
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They also helped rebuild homes in Sattola slum, which suffered a major fire in December 2016 too, destroying 0003 homes in just 10 minutes.
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The area was known as El Cartucho, from the Spanish for cardboard, after the makeshift dwellings fashioned from empty boxes that covered the slum.
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Across the street is the slum in which Milly and Renu live, abutting the water, where the sea is the cause of flooding and disease.
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Ultimately, property experts say, developers are more likely to buy up land in slum areas if titles are available, pushing prices up and locals out.
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Jolie, a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency, told Vanity Fair she looked for her lead star in orphanages, circuses and slum schools.
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A former furniture-maker who grew up in a riverside slum and the first national leader to come from outside the political and military elite.
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"In a crowded slum, these spaces are particularly relevant, as people have nowhere else to go," said Pontus Westerberg, digital projects officer at UN-Habitat.
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When slum dwellers must be removed from a settlement, authorities must first survey and consult them to determine if rehabilitation at the location is feasible.
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Boasting a population of 500,000 -- jammed into roughly half a square mile -- Mathare is the second-largest slum in the Kenyan capital, and infamously tough.
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For uprooted peasants, too, coping with the anonymity of a megacity slum, charismatic churches provide a paradoxical blend of social support, discipline and emotional release.
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Officials said the fire began when a stray rocket from a firework ignited an abandoned hut in Manila's Tondo slum district, the Associated Press reported.
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Rio's police confirmed in a written statement that Maria Esperanza Ruiz Jimenez, 67, died after being shot by a police officer in the Rocinha slum.
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But the subtext is that these same people are one short lecture and slum visit away from becoming dedicated socialist agitators, whatever the personal cost.
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It would cost at least 30,000 rupees ($442) to relocate and escape the trash dump, we're told, far beyond the reach of these slum dwellers.
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JEI said it had demanded the state withdraw "ridiculous" suggestions that the slum communities are sheltering militants from Niger Delta extremist groups and Boko Haram.
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MSF is one of the only humanitarian aid groups with a regular presence in the slum — a sprawling tent city in a flood-prone area.
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And before that, there was The Ward, a downtown working class immigrant and minority enclave that was subject to numerous "slum clearance" efforts for decades.
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Osiligi Lossai, local ward official for the Tandale neighborhood of Dar es Salaam, said flood risks are more severe in crowded slum areas like his.
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The film, based on the life of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, was partially shot in the Kampala slum of Katwe, where Mutesi grew up.
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Neza's reputation as the world's largest slum, coined when its population was combined with two other blighted areas decades ago, no longer applies, they said.
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In the sprawling Nairobi slum of Kibera, another Odinga base, residents said the situation was tense, with police out in force and helicopters circling above.
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People are moving to areas with few economic opportunities, she said, and one new development she visited, al-Asmarat, already looked like a "potential slum".
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In the same slum, police dragged 18-old-year student Silus Lebo out from under a bed and beat him, his mother Christine Lebo said.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of police had battled drug gangs in a Rio slum while in the country's distant north, riots raged for a fifth day.
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Three Swedish tourists were briefly kidnapped on Wednesday by an armed man as they pulled off on a highway near a slum to take photos.
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But somehow, this tiny, slum village on the coast of Ghana has produced more world champion boxers per capita than anywhere else in the world.
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In Tondo, a Manila slum, a fisherman, Joel Galigar, desperately tried to connect his TV antenna so he and his family could watch the game.
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Growing up in Cité Soleil, Tillias felt the negative stigma attached to being from the "slum" and vowed to change the city for the better.
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Everyone there also shared a similar story that involved coming from a place that promised paradise and that has since turned into a suburban slum.
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Such measures will be even more pressing as the virus digs into poorer countries where densely populated slum neighbourhoods create ideal conditions for disease transmission.
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Robinson was, like Curtiz, a foreign-born Jew; Rossen, a Communist, and Garfield, a progressive fellow traveler, were Jewish slum kids from New York City.
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In March 2015, more than 7,000 families were left homeless when a blaze tore through the same slum, Parola Compound, near the capital's main port.
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For over 20 years, the single mother of one lived in Kisumu's overcrowded Nyalenda slum, polluted by poor drainage, waste, noise and high crime rates.
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But when local manufacturing collapsed in the mid-237s, workers who moved from throughout Portugal became jobless, and Lisbon's bustling heart became its biggest slum.
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In their day, the apartments, with electricity and indoor plumbing, seemed the height of modernity; now, surrounded by sleeker, newer buildings, they're considered a slum.
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A design firm is looking to Kenya's largest slum to try solving the problem of severe urban flooding, the University of Minnesota's Ensia magazine reports.
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The sprawling slum of some 70,000 people lies next to the Galeao international airport, which is expected to receive some 500,000 passengers during the Games.
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One morning, he took me to see one of his projects, in Wharf Jérémie, a crime-ridden slum on the bay in Port-au-Prince.
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Back in the capital, Nairobi, it is 10am, and the shores of the Nairobi dam on the edges of Kibera slum are buzzing with activity.
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But his mention of Roberto was seen as nothing more than lip service in the Miron slum, where Roberto and his mother shared one room.
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Up to 10,000 people seeking ways to reach Britain used to live in the giant slum before it was cleared by authorities in late 2016.
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"There's no way not to be scared," said Amy Jane Pablo, 37, who lives near Mr. Panis in the Tondo slum and witnessed his arrest.
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Tom Sayers was a nobody, an illiterate builder who lived in a slum with London's other labourers, in cheap houses they had built for themselves.
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By her estimate, the packed slum is home to around 8,000 people, their corrugated iron homes balancing precariously on a steep hill by the sea.
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To the south, rows of trees all but obscure a long stretch of slum homes, with rusty corrugated roofs and breeze-block walls containing curtainless windows.
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We used to live in the slum areas so we could sell our bodies to get money, but now we can repair televisions and earn money.
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The author visits high-tech facilities, a South African slum and Nepalese villages to convey, scintillatingly, what is known and what remains mysterious about the liquid.
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The two multilateral lenders could help co-finance a $1.74 billion national slum upgrading project in Indonesia, which could be announced as early as next month.
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The ruling was in response to a 2015 petition on the forced eviction of about 5,000 slum dwellers at Shakur Basti in New Delhi on Dec.
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Although she lives in a slum and has no running water in her modest two-room flat, Ms Achieng is part of the aspiring middle class.
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The rest of the video takes a look at other densely populated places on Earth like Singapore, Manila, New York City, Dharavi Slum in Mumbai, etc.
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She challenged the New York power structure in an era before the demolition of Penn Station, when historic preservation was still regarded as misguided slum appreciation.
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One participant highlighted that slum dwellers were highly innovative and entrepreneurial, for example by converting parts of their home into a school or a soup kitchen.
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The night seemed like any other for the 23-year-old mother living with her husband and her in-laws in a slum of Agra, India.
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Having even informal security of land rights is "critical" for slum-dwellers, said David Dodman, human settlements director at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
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Roy's idealism fits snugly with her unabated dedication to the others of Indian society—from tribal Maoists to Kashmiri rebels to Dalits (untouchables) to slum-dwellers.
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Experts say this policy represents a significant shift in thinking among city planners and authorities who have historically seen bulldozers as the answer to slum settlements.
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Slum dwellers who have no way of proving ownership of assets also have no access to credit, further eroding any motivation to improve homes and neighborhoods.
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Reports have highlighted Syrian refugees being abused in Turkish clothing factories supplying European retailers and Bangladeshi slum kids working over 60 hours a week making clothes.
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While the well-heeled are taking precautionary measures such as wearing anti-pollution masks, it is a luxury that the residents of Ravidass Slum cannot afford.
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But tensions ran high in the western town of Kisumu and the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, both bastions of support for opposition leader Raila Odinga.
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The main reservoir in West Point, the largest slum in Monrovia, had dried up several days before, as had the income of the town's water carriers.
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Raheema now lives with her two children in a slum in Nuh, in a hut made of tin and cardboard with plastic sheeting for a roof.
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Renata Neder, a Rio-based human rights advisor with Amnesty International, blamed the Olympics for the increase in police violence because of more frequent slum raids.
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The year before, the state cleared part of Makoko, a waterside slum, which appears on the Lagos version of the Monopoly board as the cheapest property.
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Last year, I went to Kolkata, India, where a nonprofit is assigning addresses to slum residents to allow them access to bank accounts and ID cards.
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Some of the least expensive foods to buy in the Kibera slum where Ms. Akinyi lives are French fries and fried dough, each around 20 cents.
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Lautaru, his parents, older brother, and 8-year-old sister live together in a wooden shack patched up with tarpaulins at one end of the slum.
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Winds up to 105 miles an hour crushed giant dockside storage silos like tin cans, and whipped tin roofs from the shanties in a nearby slum.
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There is a slum near our house, and for once the boys aren't swinging their cricket bats and the ball isn't rattling against our iron gates.
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Firefighters in western India fumigated areas around closed markets, public squares and urban slum districts as fears of community transmission of the virus grew across India.
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Earlier that year, Liberian officials placed West Point, a sprawling slum in Monrovia where 60,000 to 120,000 people were crammed into shacks, under an Ebola quarantine.
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A year after her life was washed away, Bangura has reopened her business in Freetown's Colbot slum, and earned enough to send her grandchildren to school.
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Of Karachi's total population of around 0003 million, activists estimate that about 60 percent now live in self-built slum homes known locally as "katchi abadis".
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People need electricity, for instance, but when anyone who diverts electricity into a slum city is by definition a criminal, then criminals will fill that need.
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India hastily built a brick wall so US President Donald Trump wouldn't see a slum as his motorcade passed through the city of Ahmedabad on Monday.
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Forty-five families living in a separate slum near the Sardar Patel Stadium were supplied with eviction notices in advance of Trump's visit, The Guardian reported.
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In Sambizanga, a Luanda slum where Mr. dos Santos was born 74 years ago, narrow, muddy roads crisscross a labyrinth of concrete houses and tin shacks.
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Japheth Koome, the police commander in the city, said investigations had started after four bodies were found in the Mathare Area Four slum on Sunday morning.
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Many settled in what New York once knew as Five Points — a notorious slum district — and blocks away from what is now Chinatown and Little Italy.
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Maria Esperanza Jimenez, 67, took a bullet to the neck after her Italian tour guide drove into Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro — Brazil's biggest slum.
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Many Jakartans approve of his urban-renewal schemes, but Islamists are not his only detractors: many oppose the evictions of slum-dwellers that his infrastructure schemes necessitate.
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He's waiting for me on the crumbling concrete porch of his home in Tandale, a slum suburb, in a yellow short-sleeved school shirt and grey shorts.
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He was raised by his strong-willed grandmother in a St. Louis slum after his alcoholic mother gave up her children and his father abandoned the family.
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He decides that if the women of the slum had access to toilets, they would not have to face the risks that led to his mother's assault.
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Sanders wanted this to be a big nod to the iconic scene in original anime, where The Major fights a character in a huge, flooded slum courtyard.
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Adaptation - which includes measures from drought-tolerant crops and higher sea walls to protecting slum dwellers from heat - received only about a quarter of funding, analysts said.
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For inspiration, he pointed to educational researcher Sugata Mitra's famous Hole-In-The-Wall experiment, where children taught themselves to use a computer in a Delhi slum.
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An elevated highway had been built through Seoul in 22014 as a way to boost economic prospects in a low-lying area which had become a slum.
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In Mathare, a particularly mixed slum near the city centre, Kikuyu residents say that they have sent their children to the countryside until they feel safe again.
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MUMBAI, May 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Adolescent girls in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi are battling the daily challenges they face, one mobile app at a time.
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Many slum dwellers who have migrated to Kenya - East Africa's largest economy - from neighboring Uganda and Tanzania looking for jobs are "ideal prey" for traffickers, Bakra said.
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The end product was a new range of services that supported the blind, was more sensitive to women with children and culturally relevant for female slum dwellers.
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According to UN-Habitat more than 80 percent of Addis Ababa's inner city is slum, the majority of which is government-owned 'kebele' housing dating back decades.
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Even when slum dwellers are offered accommodation, officials are applying an eligibility criteria based on the number of years spent there, thus excluding many, NAPM's Ravi said.
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In one Manila slum I visited, where English terms like "human rights" and "extrajudicial killings" are sprinkled into Tagalog like grim shibboleths, almost everyone opposes the bloodletting.
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During the summer months, the Arakanabad slum is full of barefooted children who splash around in the post-monsoon sludge that has gathered in the dirty streets.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko—known as the world's largest "floating slum"—built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.
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It includes a few acres of a favela — the classic Brazilian urban slum — built for a telenovela called "A Regra do Jogo" ("The Rule of the Game").
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The capital, Kinshasa, is a city of 12m angry slum-dwellers, many of whom will see little to lose in looting and rioting if he stays on.
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Basically, what Trump has in mind is a deal to gentrify Northeast Asia's worst "slum" with the whole world watching as he turns statesmanship into real estatesmanship.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For a year, Colombian Marnellis Muentes and her neighbors have opened their small homes in a hilltop slum to dozens of Venezuelan families.
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Slum residents collect data and information about where they live, which is held in a central database and can be used by governments and other decision-makers.
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In his scorching Oscar-nominated drama, Fernando Meirelles uses children from the slum to tell the tale of two young men struggling to escape its lethal hold.
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While working on another project in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2012, Wirseen told CNN she learned girls were having sex in order to access pads.
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In Ahmedabad, volunteers and others painted 3,000 roofs in slum areas with white lime paint, said Anjali Jaiswal, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's India program.
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"We have vulnerable populations in camps, refugees, slum areas at the outskirts of large urban centres," the World Health Organization's Syria representative, Nima Saeed Abid, told Reuters.
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Some slum residents get their water from a communal tap, while others collect theirs in canisters and buckets from tankers that visit a few times a week.
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Located where African-American poverty was already concentrated, the Chicago high rises replaced barely habitable slum dwellings — wood-frame firetraps frequently without plumbing, heat or adequate sanitation.
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When post-war zeal dictated that the infamous slum of the city was to be torpedoed in the late 225s and 230s, there were mass scale demolitions.
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Take Back the Bronx has been working in the Bronx against police brutality, community violence, slum housing, worker exploitation, and for community power and control since 2011.
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In Nairobi's Mathare slum — and to a lesser extent in Kibera — shops and homes of Kikuyu business owners were torched and looted on Saturday and Sunday night.
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Narrated by a young girl, Chula, and her family's maid from a nearby slum, the story captures the despair, confusion and chaos as the country's conflict raged.
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As in Flint, clean water is not easily accessible to Kibera residents; without formal piping into the slum much of our water is easily contaminated with disease.
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Slum residents, activists and charity workers occupied the square in front of city hall for several hours, surrounded by law enforcement officers from the police and military.
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Much of that soaring demand stems from Yanan's embrace of a national slum redevelopment program, mainly financed by policy banks such as the China Development Bank (CDB).
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Many believed Weah, who grew up in a Monrovia slum before becoming a celebrated striker in some of Europe's biggest football teams, would bring a new dawn.
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In 2006, Lee Paiva, an artist from San Francisco, was working in Korogocho, a Nairobi slum, in a program to help families taking care of AIDS orphans.
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The slum-dwellers of Lagos, Jakarta and other coastal cities in the developing world could be chased from their homes, many of which are already on stilts.
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People living in densely populated slum areas with no running water or proper sewage and rubbish collection systems are particularly at risk of catching dengue, she said.
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Atiqul Islam, the mayor of the Dhaka North City Corporation which encompasses the slum, has also said that victims will continue to receive assistance from the authorities.
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Frequent bouts of illness that stop slum-dwellers from working keep them trapped in poverty, says Abdus Shaheen of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor, an NGO.
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Health experts say slum dwellers in Latin America's biggest cities risk bearing the brunt of the global pandemic due to lost income coupled with dire living conditions.
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Her trips around the floating community dubbed the 'Venice of Africa' are part of a project that seeks to put the renowned slum on the digital map.
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"There are always problems between the slum lords (who account for around one in five people living across Freetown's slums) and tenants," 36-year-old Sesay said.
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They had been hired by developers to extort slum dwellers into consenting to their houses being razed, in exchange for shabby tower blocks under a government program.
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The water lifted five cargo ships huddled by the city's port into the air and sent them crashing on top of a slum on the opposite bank.
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There was the human cost: the poor and working-class families uprooted from their homes on the West Side of Manhattan in the name of slum clearance.
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His mother's tiny social apartment was a fraction the size of her beloved former house, which Oliveira says was also on legally purchased land inside the slum.
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A randomised trial by researchers from the University of Notre Dame in America linked young businesswomen in a Kenyan slum with local mentors dealing in similar trades.
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I was told in one slum by the Pasig River that more than 80 men were called out of their homes, lined up and arrested last September.
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The Jefferson Memorial undergoes a major roof repair, a pelican grabs a meal, the annual Little League World Series in Pennsylvania and fire consumes a Bangladeshi slum.
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His father was hit in the leg by a police bullet as he was fleeing the slum and his mother suffered head injuries when terrified people stampeded.
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People queue to cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections in front of a shop serving hot food at a polling station in Luzira slum, Kampala, Uganda.
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The girls, aged between eight and sixteen, are part of Dharavi Diary, a slum innovation project in Dharavi's Naya Nagar neighbourhood, started in 2014 by filmmaker Nawneet Ranjan.
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The government delivered bags of rice, beans and cooking oil to residents, who are forbidden from leaving the seaside slum, due to the Ebola outbreak in their community.
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"The problem with land evictions in Indonesia is that nobody has a (land ownership) certificate," said Januardy, who specializes in land rights cases and represents the slum dwellers.
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For decades, the major landmark of Balut, Tondo, a densely populated slum squeezed against Manila's North Harbor, was a monumental pile of often-smoldering trash nicknamed Smokey Mountain.
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Hovering expectantly nearby, the residents of Vasant Kunj slum in South Delhi, one of the city's largest and poorest, stand waiting for a government water tanker to arrive.
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In the slum communities of Mumbai, The Duchess witnessed the work of the Myna Mahila Foundation who empower women through access to menstrual hygiene products and employment opportunities.
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Pausing on a bustling street to buy food, Vaceliza Villa didn&apost pay attention to a noisy campaign marching through the heart of Caracas&apos biggest slum, Petare.
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Many slum dwellers store water in buckets and collect rain water in root-top tanks, and water also collects in discarded tyres, making ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
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A feud between factions of the Amigos dos Amigos (Friends of Friends, or ADA), a drug gang that has controlled the slum since 0003, erupts in daily violence.
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KIBERA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Abdullahi Ibrahim's dream to set up a fruit-juice business has so far been thwarted by water scarcity in Kenya's biggest slum, Kibera.
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It was conducted in face-to-face interviews held from March 15 to 20, about a week after police resumed a bloody anti-narcotics crackdown in slum communities.
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And if you ever want to return to your native slum, setup a 'go fund me' account for a 1-way ticket to Cairo & i'll give you $200.
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Scattered across a warren of slum areas are numerous examples of Medellin's social innovation, driven by consecutive mayors over the past two decades and funded by city hall.
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Medellin's much copied cable car transport system ferries residents up and down hillsides, connecting slum dwellers with the rest of the city in a quick and affordable way.
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That's when he would join his friends to smoke bhang, a form of cannabis - a common pastime among young slum-dwellers who take the drug in secret dens.
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At Karagita, a slum that borders the lake, a group of men fret about the possibility of ethnic violence similar to what happened after the election in 2007.
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Additional reporting by The European Pressphoto Agency Members of the youth orchestra Ghetto Classics play trombones during their weekly practice at St. John's catholic church in Korogocho slum.
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He grew up in Monrovia's Clara Town slum and can look out on the derelict lots and gutted streets from the upstairs balcony where he spoke to Reuters.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's top minors' rights watchdog urged the French government not to leave hundreds of children living unsupervized in a migrant slum outside Calais without proper shelter.
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As the slum population has increased, residents have been cutting into the hills that surround the settlements, destroying natural bushland around it and creating swathes of barren land.
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Her father was a taxi-driver, who ferried pilgrims between the holy sites of Mecca, where the family lived in an apartment on the edge of a slum.
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The Bertes men, father and son, shared a tiny, concrete room with six other people in a metropolitan Manila slum, working odd jobs when they could find them.
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I could see Sadr City, the wire-crossed slum that would give birth to Shiite death squads, and the Green Zone, where American proconsuls forged a new Iraq.
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When I logged into the iCloud Web site, it led me to a Google Earth image of a slum in Giza, on the western side of the Nile.
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Sure enough, the police officer who visits the victim's home tells the parents, who are poor slum-dwellers, not to make a big deal about their daughter's rape.
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Until a few years ago, People's Park was a dumping site in the slum northeast of Nairobi - filled with garbage and even human waste - and a crime hotspot.
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"A year ago, we managed to get by with the money sent from abroad," says Omaira Rodriguez, a retiree who lives in the sprawling Caracas slum of Petare.
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In a photograph from Korogocho, one of the largest slum neighborhoods in Kenya, Léki Dago documents the interior wall of a house fabricated from mismatched scraps of matabi.
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But many cities, especially in poorer nations, face significant challenges, including large and growing slum populations that lack basic services and are increasingly at risk from climate disasters.
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For urban planners, it's a well known project that goes back to Robert Moses; It was one of his "slum clearance" projects, and a whole neighborhood was bulldozed.
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The brief abduction of three Swedish tourists by armed men on Wednesday after they stopped to take photos near a dangerous slum highlighted the security challenges facing organizers.
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Now he is stuck in a slum with 2000 other migrant construction workers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and hasn't been paid in 20 days.
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His use of heroin, crack, ecstasy, and other drugs left him living in a Lower East Side slum with a girlfriend and a prostitute in the early '90s.
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The Collect Pond was so contaminated by the runoff from tanneries and slaughterhouses that it had been filled in around 1811 to become the notorious Five Points slum.
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For years, a brutal gang war raged in the slum of Lyari, and as terrorism drastically increased in Pakistan after 833, Karachi became a key militant operating ground.
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At 4 in the morning, on the outskirts of Petare in the San Blas slum, women line up at a winding road to fetch water from a stream.
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When reporting a story among migrants living in the shadows of a Kenyan slum, I asked a group of men why they left their homes in rural Ethiopia.
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I'm astonished and moved to see how she intimately engages and clearly depicts the lives of people living in a slum village next to the airport in Mumbai.
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Like Katharine Boo — who synthesized hours of research into a cinematic account of slum life in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" — Flock writes about her subjects with omniscient authority.
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Slum residents are also more likely to have "nutrition deficits" and are more exposed to pollution, which can increase the risk of catching the new coronavirus, she added.
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After floods in 2015, the government evicted some 100 families living in Crab Town slum, and moved them to a location about 20 km (12 miles) from Freetown.
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Dharma Diani, a slum dweller who said the Islamic group had provided her community with food and supplies after a government-ordered eviction last year, rejected the accusations.
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Young Indonesian slum-dweller Sancaka learns early in life that attempts at heroism get people killed and that it's best to suppress his urges to help the helpless.
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After leaving Slum Village, Yancey eventually built a successful career as a freelance producer, making tracks and remixes for artists like Janet Jackson, Busta Rhymes, and Daft Punk.
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And there is Anand Mehta, the unsuccessful businessman who buys a share in the boys' future, raising them up from their squalid slum but entangling them in debt.
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Stephanie Moraa, an 8-year-old girl in the Nairobi slum of Mathare, died on Saturday after being hit by a stray bullet as police fired to disperse protesters.
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But many cities in poorer nations face significant challenges, including large and growing slum populations that lack basic services and are increasingly at risk from climate disasters, experts said.
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Stephanie Moraa, an 8-year-old girl in the Nairobi slum of Mathare, died after being hit by a stray bullet as police fired to disperse protesters on Aug.
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There he met a teenager called Sonny Boy, and the pair spent a day exploring his home, a slum on the top of a rubbish dump nicknamed "Smoky Mountain".
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He and his family lived in a modest two-storey house in a nice part of town: already not bad for a slum boy, abandoned young by his parents.
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But while several states have schemes to give land to the rural poor, the high cost of land in India's cities has hamstrung slum redevelopment and affordable housing schemes.
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The order covers the period between July 2016 and November 2017, when two complainants, including a group of Manila slum dwellers, petitioned the court to make details publicly available.
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IN THE mega-cities of Asia and Africa, from Cairo to Manila, urban sprawl throws up trash mountains where enterprising slum-dwellers gather a bare living collecting recyclable junk.
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Pumwani is a Nairobi slum whose population is almost 100 percent Muslim, and at its center, the five-story mosque towers over muddy streets and homes made of tin.
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Pumwani is a Nairobi slum whose population is almost 13 percent Muslim, and at its center, the five-story mosque towers over muddy streets and homes made of tin.
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In Kawangware, a slum in the west of the city, shops and homes belonging to Kikuyus were set on fire, apparently in retaliation for attacks by a Kikuyu militia.
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Two drainage canals running through the slum will channel waste water to the plant, while young people will be awarded contracts to supply solid waste, said project leader Tsuma.
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"When Kourtney Kardashian dumps you and you have to slum it like the rest of us at a normal gym," he captioned a sneaky mirror selfie of the two.
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In Balurmath slum where Ali grew up, the putrid smell of sewerage seeps through the air as children play barefoot in the narrow alleys lined by corrugated iron houses.
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He highlighted that a separate city hall initiative has reduced the death rate of slum fires from 7.9 per 100,000 people in 2005 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2015.
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Nine-year-old Malika is writing down what she would like to do to improve the slum where she was dumped as a baby in a pile of garbage.
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She said the Slum Act should be amended to address improve land tenure, ensure adequate housing, right to land and public and social infrastructure facilities for the urban poor.
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It also wants cities to make new commitments on low-emission buildings, mass transport and green urban infrastructure, as well as protection for poor communities such as slum dwellers.
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In Lagos, Nigeria, start-up Wecyclers runs a trash collection and recycling business, providing revenue for slum residents who gather rubbish by bicycle and are paid for the service.
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Elsewhere, in Delhi's Savda Ghevra slum resettlement colony where about 30,000 people live, non-profit Marg taught women residents to demand their legal right to water, sanitation and transport.
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The Cape Town project could open doors for similar measures globally, Brillembourg said, enabling slum residents in India, Venezuela and Brazil to get ownership of land they live on.
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The military raided Aydin's village so many times — arresting young men, shooting up houses and animals — that Aydin's father gave up and moved the family to an Istanbul slum.
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For five years Khadijah Dija visited a family health clinic in the slum every three months to get a free contraceptive injection until Trump's funding cuts came into effect.
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To pay for the pills, which cost about $10, Dija had to dip into precious savings she had made from her work at a women's group in the slum.
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According to those who have been there, is modest for a luxury getaway; an eco-resort where celebrities can feel down to earth, but don't have to slum it.
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There's no easy, definitive way out of the slum for Mutesi, no single big chess competition that will let her defeat some smarmy villain and permanently secure her future.
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The 3,600 units include two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments with white tile floors and small balconies, some of which overlook a nearby hillside slum, known as a favela.
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The vertical server farm/slum is an interesting construct I haven't seen much before—have you seen examples of buildings like that, or what led you to this idea?
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"We improvised some of it on the spot," Khan, who lives in a one-room house in Garden Reach slum with her parents and two siblings, told the Telegraph.
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From slum dweller, to soccer star, to leader of the opposition, to graduate student, to senator, to president — a political tryout that some say could only happen in Liberia.
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The Interlagos circuit has a history of such attacks, with cars caught in traffic jams or at red stop lights on a road that runs past a hillside slum.
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The humans welcome them at first, but soon learn to despise them, separating them into a large, filthy slum zone—an obvious allusion to South Africa's history of apartheid.
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Most slum dwellers cannot afford to buy food in bulk and stock up, while the lack of running water makes frequent hand washing to help prevent infection a challenge.
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Though not necessarily natural allies, both Florida's Dead Prez and Michigan's Slum Village hit their creative strides around the turn of the millennium performing decidedly uncommercial hip-hop. Stic.
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Most Nigerian brothels in Agadez are in the Nasarawa slum, a sewage-filled neighborhood a short walk from the grand mosque, the tallest mud-brick structure in the world.
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Building and wall collapses occur every monsoon season, when rainfall weakens the foundations of the poorly-built slum structures that house 40 to 50 percent of the city's population.
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Fearful of floods and epidemics like the Ebola outbreak, which ravaged the West African nation in 2014, the state has repeatedly threatened to evict slum dwellers in recent years.
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In the meantime, Ochieng is much happier than she was in the slum, where she spent at least 600 shillings each month buying water to cook and do laundry.
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Born in Detroit in 20023, J Dilla, like Madlib, formed a band in high school—Slum Village—that was committed to exploring hip-hop's roots while addressing contemporary matters.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse a crowd that was protesting on Sunday against the overnight murder of four people in a slum in the capital Nairobi.
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While an average slum-dweller cannot afford a home in Riverview, Karibu Homes is increasing the availability of decent housing stock and showing others that it can be done.
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But a Singaporean politician once called Golden Mile Complex a "vertical slum," and the recent decision to sell won support from more than 80 percent of the building's owners.
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They named the slum Rimshah, for the 11-year-old girl with Down&aposs syndrome who was eventually cleared of charges of tearing up pages of an Islamic religious book.
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The title plays on his star power and charity work among the urban poor, especially in a slum neighborhood in the capital Kampala where he has his studios, Firebase Entertainment.
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While an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – which he attended on a U.S. Marine Corps NROTC scholarship – Rye visited Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Scheduled to open in mid-February, the new camp will offer alternative shelter to the 3003,500 people who are currently living in a marshland slum on the outskirts of town.
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Scheduled to open in mid-February, the new camp will offer alternative shelter to the 2,500 people who are currently living in a marshland slum on the outskirts of town.
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"When they came in, I raised my hands and told them that I'm an elections peace worker," Olambo told BuzzFeed News during an interview in Kondele, a slum in Kisumu.
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High up in Caracas' sprawling Petare slum, waiter Victor Cordova juggles three jobs while his wife Yennifer cares for their three daughters and a baby boy in their tiny home.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Thirteen years ago, a Brazilian general named Augusto Heleno led hundreds of United Nations troops into a Haitian slum to bring a powerful gangster to heel.
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In exchange for a connection, Kevin and six of his friends collect 200 shillings per month each (about $2) from about a hundred shacks in his corner of the slum.
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The Suits star spent a week in the slum communities of Delhi and Mumbai, India, to learn about the issues and challenges the women and girls who live there face.
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"There are so many low-cost technologies that are easy to use, and we train slum residents to use them as a first step towards mobilizing the communities," she said.
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Without the Italian one, we would have watched yet another tale of New York Media choosing a token foreign body of work about strong women in a slum-like metropolis.
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Sitting with friends by a roadside in Boca de Caja, a seaside slum, she rails against men in corbatitas (little ties) who live in the apartment towers just metres away.
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"Some days I want to just slum it out and wear a track suit and some days I want to get dressed up and wear something really nice," Rexha says.
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Imelda Hidalgo, who lives in a slum of Quezon City, in Manila, says the police gunned down her brother last year, probably because they heard that he took shabu (methamphetamine).
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Julie Arrighi, Innovation Advisor at the American Red Cross, said that using networked heat sensors like Lumkani is crucial to mitigating the growing risk of slum fires around the world.
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Two protesters were shot and killed by police in the slum area of Mathare on the outskirts of Nairobi, two sources who aren't being named for their safety told CNN.
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Njoroge says she hopes to teach the youths of the slum important life skills and to transform their lives using the art and discipline that come with learning classical music.
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Kalyani P and her husband, who were moved from a slum about 25 km away, have re-painted their apartment twice, replaced the tiles and put in new electrical fittings.
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On Thursday, Rio police said they arrested two people and confiscated firearms after a shootout in Cantagalo, a favela, or slum, that overlooks the popular, upscale beach neighborhood of Ipanema.
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The 4-year-old and his family live in a crowded slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where open sewage and poor sanitation increase the spread of diarrhea-causing viruses and bacteria.
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Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa and a tinderbox mix of different tribes and ethnicities, ranging from the Luo to the predominantly Muslim Nubians who were the original settlers.
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Dadaab has survived as an isolated slum precisely because Kenya does not want to swell the Somali vote by up to one million refugees, or 2 percent of Kenya's population.
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In Jordan, Zaatari sprouted in an area that had been an empty desert, transforming in just a few short years into a sprawling slum city currently housing nearly 80,000 Syrians.
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Its $217m project to improve slum-life in 154 Indonesian cities, led by a veteran of the World Bank, seems alert to the dangers of soil erosion and groundwater pollution.
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In Nairobi's biggest slum, Kibera, the narrow dirt streets bustle with businesses charging phones from generators; running tiny cinemas showing Premier League football on satellite TVs; and selling solar panels.
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For example, the answer to their question of what the poor peasants, slum kids and ex-factory workers have in common is that their human dignity should not be threatened.
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Nairobi's vast Kibera settlement - coming from the Nubian for forest or jungle - is described as Africa's largest slum and comprises more than a dozen villages from Soweto East to Kianda.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "Dona Edir, Dona Edir" - the call is heard frequently in the narrow lanes of Canaa, a slum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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Jerusalem Journal 11 Photos View Slide Show ' JERUSALEM — In the violent East Jerusalem slum of Issawiya, trash burned next to an open bin, filling the air with an acrid stench.
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The Rio police confirmed in a written statement that the tourist, María Esperanza Ruiz Jiménez, 67, died after being shot by a police officer in the Rocinha favela, or slum.
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Officials view the crowded, slum-like neighborhoods as fire hazards and eyesores, despite the fact that the migrants do the menial jobs that allow a city like Beijing to function.
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Destitute peasants fled to urban centers, where they settled in shantytowns like Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a slum 10 miles east of Mexico City that eventually held more than a million people.
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The studio for his brand, J.W. Anderson, is also based in East London, in Dalston — a former slum once tormented by Jack the Ripper that is now undergoing huge gentrification.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.
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Calais was the site of a sprawling, slum-like camp for as many as up to 7,000 refugees and asylum-seekers before the French government closed the camp in October.
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But the government is now considering a new land policy, drafted last year, which would rule out forced evictions of slum dwellers and address their current lack of land security.
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They also fear eviction from 'slum lords' - self-proclaimed landlords who rent out the dwellings they have built or land that they have long claimed as being under their control.
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"The closer to the mountain you go, the cheaper (it is) to rent houses for your family," said Salim Bangura, 38, who lives with his wife in Congo Town slum.
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Avina's biggest project is in the Villa El Salvador slum of Lima, an enormous park called Parque Mamá Lucinda, built on a space that spent decades as a garbage dump.
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There are no sewers, and complex land issues and a lack of space conspire to prevent the majority of slum dwellers from having access to a toilet near their homes.
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When I was a 25-year-old reporter, I went to ask a group of young girls who lived in a slum in Govandi, Mumbai, what their checklist looked like.
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Armed with dozens of cans of colorful paint, Reddy and a team of about 700 volunteers painted the walls and alleyways of the hilltop slum over two weekends last month.
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Satellite images show that stretches of Mumbai's coast have eroded by as much as 18 metres since 2000, in part because developers and slum-dwellers have paved over protective mangroves.
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Her home in the Old Fadama slum of Ghana's capital is one of the many marked with a red "X" by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly as evidence of its imminent demolition.
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"It's the old city and the new city, you see the full contrast," says 32-year-old María, taking in Guayaquil's cookie-cutter skyline from her tiny terrace in the slum.
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Real estate in Mumbai is among the most expensive in the world, and residents of Dharavi have been resisting attempts to develop the slum, which sprawls over 240 hectares (590 acres).
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Solo portrays its main character as a cocky, slum-educated scrapper who doesn't even grab a few cocktails when he finds himself at a plush gangsters' party, midway through the movie.
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According to Jacqueline Klopp, a researcher at Columbia University, per square foot of land rented, Nairobi's slum residents could well pay higher rents than some of the city's wealthy expatriate workers.
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Protesters, accusing the commission of pro-government bias and demanding its members resign before elections in August next year, blocked roads with burning tires in both Kisumu and Nairobi's Kibera slum.
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Yet in the razed Otodo Gbame slum, a world away from legal and political disputes, people like Roseline Alphonse cannot afford to wait in the hope of securing aid or justice.
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Those factors don't feature much in India's Smart Cities plan to create 100 hi-tech urban hubs that activists say will force tens of thousands of people from their slum homes.
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The redevelopment of the BDD chawls is second only in scope to the long-delayed plan for the Dharavi slum, home to about 1 million residents and hundreds of small businesses.
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In early 2017, she spent a week in the slum communities of Delhi and Mumbai, India, to learn about the issues and challenges the women and girls who live there face.
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In November, demolitions and what police said was fighting between rival communities forced more than 30,000 people from their bamboo homes in Otodo Gbame, a waterfront slum in Lagos' Lekki neighborhood.
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MONROVIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a windy day in Liberia's waterfront slum of West Point, Gbeneweieh Quoh surveys what remains of her home, fearful that it may crumble into the ocean.
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And unlike the President, you can trust Slum Thug with the nuclear codes; after all, he squashed beefs with Z-Ro, Rick Ross, and Lil Flip with nary a shot fired.
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Their political zenith came at a show in Rio at the end of 1968, where a large image of a slum bandit shot dead by police formed part of the staging.
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Orangi is widely cited as Asia's largest slum and sprawls over 8,000 acres - the equivalent of about 4,500 Wembley football pitches - in the port city of Karachi in northwestern Sindh province.
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The film juxtaposes breathtaking scenery shots of the Himalayas with gruesome images of violence and degradation in the brothel and slum where the girl, named Lakshmi, and others are held captive.
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A day after the Arpit Palace disaster, more than 250 makeshift homes were destroyed in a slum in Paschim Puri, a poor area of New Delhi, though no one was killed.
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Trump's first major partner in India was a man named Harresh Mehta, the founder of Rohan Lifescapes, a real estate firm that has reaped massive profits from Mumbai's slum-redevelopment boom.
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In a slum in Pasay, a district of greater Manila, on a recent Saturday, Migo Paladio, 24, stood in a narrow alley and watched the crowds from two wakes spill out.
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Mr. Mohammed, who was raised in the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, considered Africa's largest slum, argued forcefully that the government needed to step in more aggressively to cap health care prices.
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