Unfortunately, the complaints are not loud enough to be heard by those who make the decisions. Unplanned cities easily generate rats and cockroaches and other disease-carrying organisms.

A battalion of Special Forces (BOPE) from the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro started using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones to air monitor the drugs trade and gangs in shanty towns ...

Dubbed “Mayotte Standing”, the plan includes restoring electricity to every home and forbidding the reconstruction of shanty towns. French Prime Minister François Bayrou arrived in Mayotte on ...

The number of people living in shanty towns or “misery villages” in Argentina and particularly in the capital Buenos Aires keeps increasing despite a decade of sustained growth at almost ...