Somali delegates at the conference estimated that 85 percent of their population were currently living in slums or partially destroyed homes. A special theme of the meeting is "post-conflict and ...

Now Kenyans, with no ethnic link to Somalia, are joining the Jihad ... Many of those events centered on Pumwani, a largely Muslim slum in Nairobi. Here, residents and religious leaders speak ...

For the second year in a row, the worst place is Somalia, where conditions are grim ... particularly for mothers who are living in urban slums,” says David Oot, a Save the Children senior ...

In Somalia, al-Shabab has aspired since its founding ... says that al-Shabab has mastered the art of recruiting in Kenya's Christian slums, offering money, weapons training and a quick conversion ...

Most came from Somalia, escaping the civil war that began ... like some kind of giant slum, a bit like the planet of Tatooine in Star Wars." Rawlence joined Shapiro for a discussion about his ...

Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of Kampala, striving daily in a restaurant to shield her family from the specters ...

The most important factor in enabling the spread of pandemics in slums is the neglect of these marginalized populations by governing elites. By Lee W. RileyEva Raphael and Robert Snyder Dr. Riley ...