Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring or gas canisters. Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of ...

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The housing scheme is part of a five-year government project started in 2016 to either demolish or upgrade unsafe slums and relocate some 850,000 people. It is part of Egypt's commitment to ...

In Ezbet-el-Haggana, a slum on the outskirts of Cairo ... Islamic organizations around Egypt -- particularly the Muslim Brotherhood -- have not. Social service provision has been a core activity ...