The ups and downs during Kenya's post-election violence this year could be traced in sales of Coke in Nairobi's slums and in western Kenya's villages.
The children in the film come from Mumbai's slums, and their performances would put Hollywood moppets to shame.
Roseline Awino is one of hundreds of thousands living in Nairobi's slums.
The study concluded that there were strong similarities between children involved in drug wars in Rio's slums and child soldiers elsewhere in the world.
Diaz's team of eight trains and shares tools and technology with others across Manila's slums as well as with locals from towns like Cebu and Visayas.
Some vans are run by militias largely composed of former police and firemen who control large swaths of the city's slums and run clandestine transportation and other services.
His idea was recently picked up by Civil Military Operations group of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that is set to distribute 10, 000 bottle bulbs to different parts of Metro Manila's slums.
After all, though there are deprived areas in the UK they can't be compared with the grinding poverty of Venezuela's slums where the incentive to escape to a better life is surely much greater.
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In Nairobi's slums, which are often divided along tribal lines, rival groups have been fighting each other with machetes and sticks as police use tear gas and bullets to keep them from pouring into the city center.
But Stead's undoing came when issues of the Gazette began filtering into the slums where Eliza Armstrong's mother lived.
Louis, one of the city's worst slums, and was raised by his grandparents, both blind.
Those who see potential, not hopeless degradation, in the world's new slums do disagree on something important.
So this whole idea that everybody who is in rap is a high school dropout from the slums, that's not quite the reality.
Mr Sadr has strong support in north-east Baghdad's Shia slums, formerly known as Saddam City but which his followers have renamed al-Sadr City.
Built in one of the city's many slums, the center is an elegant, modern structure, equipped with a daycare, medical center, cafeteria and classrooms.
Eighteen months after Equity opened an office in Kibera, one of the world's largest slums, the branch had more than 15, 000 clients, according to Francis Mbindyo, a manager of the recently opened Kibera branch.
The first scene shows the Bombay slums, and it's almost like Brigadoon with saris.
For example, more than half the people in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (slums) are black.
The favelas, or slums, of Brazil's urban centers are breeding grounds of violence.
He often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital.
Known previously as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital.
Following its boom days, Santa Teresa fell into neglect, when Rio's favelas (slums) spread onto the nearby hillsides and crime drove the wealthy to southern neighbourhoods far from the city centre.
That's since changed, with the pacification of dozens of Rio's "favela" hillside slums, the discovery of offshore oil deposits that have flooded the city with petrodollars and Rio's role as host for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
Development bankers like to talk about a project in the slums of Orangi in Pakistan's capital, Karachi.
One-room evangelical churches now dot the Latin American landscape, from remote Amazon villages to the labyrinthine slums that surround the region's major cities.
Niemeyer hired proper seamstresses, most of them women from Rio's "favela" hillside slums who worked for samba schools, stitching extravagant Carnival costumes.
Most of the Luhya (the country's second-biggest group, unrelated to the Luo), most of the ten or so Kalenjin-speaking peoples of the Rift Valley, most of Kenya's Muslims and most of Kenya's poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga.
One-room evangelical churches now dot the Latin American landscape, from remote Amazon villages to the labyrinthine slums that surround the poor-region's major cities.
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