CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is ...

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi's unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law into their own ...

The decay is entrenched. Some neighbourhoods, in a place colloquially known as the City of Gold, have been without water for weeks as decrepit infrastructure gives up. Residents say local government ...

In Africa, artificial intelligence and data is being used to identify pollutants and clean up the air. On the outskirts of Cairo, the pyramids shimmer in a brownish haze. In gridlocked Nairobi, ...