Informal settlements: Mass demolitions, evictions as Nigeria continues housing push
KELECHUKWU IRUOMA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how evictions have ramped up over the past five years as the government in clears informal settlements to build new homes for a rapidly growing population….
Forced evictions leave 5,000 Kenyan slum dwellers at risk of coronavirus
Nairobi, Kenya Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of Kenyans in Nairobi are at risk of contracting the new coronavirus after authorities demolished their houses in the midst of the pandemic, human rights activists said on Wednesday. Authorities ordered bulldozers into the Kariobangi informal settlement in north-east Nairobi on Monday, demolishing some 600 homes and forcefully evicting […]
Vietnam demolitions pit Catholic Church against authorities
Thomson Reuters Foundation The demolition of about 100 homes near Ho Chi Minh City, including one owned by the Catholic Church, has pitted the church against authorities in the latest such dispute over land in the Communist Party-ruled country. Residents in Tan Binh district received no warning of the demolitions earlier this month and were […]