By Iheomimichineke Mystery Mimi Ojiakor, Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria. In Nigeria’s urban slums, when ...

Surgical Accredited & Trained Healthcare Initiative (SATHI) programme, a pioneering healthcare model, has emerged as a game-changer ...

It was a common scene in the slums of the Cambodian capital: warrens of huts wedged between garbage-strewn streets; tiny children begging for food at nearly every corner. For Elizabeth Ross Johnson, ...

A top member of Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative shadow cabinet was recorded complaining about not seeing ‘another white face’ ...

Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I ...

For nearly two decades, the U.S. provided a lifeline to Haiti: duty-free textile imports that drew American apparel manufacturers and created tens of thousands of jobs in the Western Hemisphere’s ...

Lilongwe, Malawi (KDVR) — It seems like everywhere Grant Arends goes in Malawi, the locals shower him with gifts. Big bunches of bananas, buckets of potatoes. Even live chickens. The gifts may not ...

Detroit has the nation’s second-highest poverty rate among cities with at least 65,000 residents and Flint ranks third, according to 2024 data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. No. 1 was ...

In the dry, isolated area of Karamoja in northeastern Uganda—the country's poorest sub-region—children have long suffered from malnutrition and water shortages. Now a study has shown that nearly half ...

In promoting education and empowering underprivileged communities, Leo District 404B2 Nigeria, the youth activity of Lions international, District 404B2 Nigeria, has donated educational books to Chess ...

In our Reality Check stories, Charlotte Observer journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Vice ...

Wealth across the United States is in flux, with income gaps growing sharper even as median household incomes creep upward. According to 2024 data from the Census Bureau, the U.S. median household ...