Kinshasa, often called "Kin la Belle," faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia ...

Emerging megacities like Kinshasa or Lima do not command important global niches. ... The slums of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, swell by as many as 400,000 new migrants each year.

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third largest city in Africa and home to over 10 million people. Some scholars predict that, by 2050, the city’s population ...

If the preachers who spread their message on the banks of the Congo are to be believed, the face of evil is found in the despairing gaze of an abandoned child. With their pinched faces and thin ...

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos.Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals ...

Some 44 million people are eligible to vote, though many are expected to shun the election, including in Pakadjuma, a sprawling Kinshasa slum with no running water or sewage system.

Kinshasa, often called “Kin la Belle”, faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia and clade Ib, are circulating in the city simultaneously. This is ...

Kinshasa, often called “Kin la Belle”, faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia and clade Ib, are circulating in the city simultaneously. This is ...

Congo-Kinshasa: Mpox in the DRC - Residents of the Slum At the Centre of Kinshasa's Epidemic Have Little Chance of Avoiding This Major Health Crisis. 24 January 2025.