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Community health workers checking people’s temperature in view of Covid-19 threat in a Mumbai slum in October 2020.

Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

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Many Nairobians live in a slum – and the home they identify with is somewhere in a village.

Affordable housing

Why the government’s housing policy is failing in Nairobi

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
A man building what will probably become a family’s permanent residence.

Refugee camps

Kakuma camp has become a permanent settlement

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by Qaabata Boru
Favela life is tough, but two thirds of the residents do not want to move away.

Marginalised communities

Where Brazil's neglected people live

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by Thuany Rodrigues
An event marking the one-month anniversary of the explosion in Beirut’s port, as a result of which the government was forced to step down.

Lebanon

Quick reforms are not in sight in Beirut

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Indigenous organisations can mobilise masses in Bolivia: people in La Paz protested against the construction of a road through an Amazonian nature reserve in 2011.

Identities

Pulling the levers of power in Bolivia

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by Ulrich Goedeking
One of the priorities for Older People’s Associations is women’s participation, as here in Cambodia.

Senior citizens

A mobilising force

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by Jürgen Focke
Mass anti-government protests in Algiers in March 2020.

Algeria

Protestors still call for genuine democracy in Algeria

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by Sofian Philip Naceur
They have good intentions, but are privileged nonetheless: humanitarian workers in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Humanitarian aid

A time of reckoning

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
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