IT was the shocking documentary that introduced Brits to the “closest thing this country has to a shanty town". Now, 10 years on, residents of much-maligned Jaywick have slammed Channel 5 series ...

Rocinha is one of the shanty towns in Brazil that have been changed ... Services Most favelas have limited access to clean drinking water, electricity, toilets, schools or good quality healthcare.

ABACO residents are urging the government to clear debris from demolished shanty towns, claiming the rubble is fueling fires ...

Two weeks after Cyclone Chido, emergency services are still trying to restore water, power and telecoms ... clandestine inhabitants living in shanty towns that were utterly destroyed by the ...

A battalion of Special Forces (BOPE) from the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro started using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones to air monitor the drugs trade and gangs in shanty towns ...