Tuesday-night party Favela Chic is very much a misnomer, considering favela is Portuguese for slum. There is nothing chic about a place where gang activity, drug trade, and shanty houses are the norm.

Clearwater Beach could join some of Florida's most popular tourist destinations in being declared a "slum or blighted area," if city commissioners approve a proposal to make it a special redevelopment ...

Members of the Mombasa based "Youth For Change and Development Forum" in a clean up exercise around Mombasa's Tudor Muoroto Simitini slums .[Maarufu Mohamed, Standard] Efforts to clean one of the ...