Africa

The Algiers Casbah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is collapsing with little political will to save it.

The South African government has unveiled a new plan to spread its industrial development -- and the jobs it provides -- to poor regions in the country.

The report looks at the largest cities in developing countries and measures their growth and development. Cities such as Cairo have been praised for improvements to utilities, but criticized for not addressing the root of poverty in its slums.

The rabid market for housing has spread from upper- and middle-class neighborhoods to the shacks of impoverished slum townships, with tens of prospective buyers for every property.

A new development at the confluence of the River Nile has brought an Illinois planner back to her native country of Sudan.

A recent court case has focused attention on Johannesburg's decrepit housing, although the government insists its building pace is adequate.

A recent report says that over 80 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa's farmland is unfit to produce enough food to sustain millions of hungry inhabitants.

After many dangerous encounters, a British team claims to have discovered that the world's longest river is actually 107 kilometers longer than previously thought.

Using advanced irrigation technology imported from Europe and Israel, the war torn country is producing tons of good food for its residents.

Bold project transforms a historic but decaying neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, into an impressive urban park.

The L.A. Times presents the fourth report in a series on Africa's swelling slums. This article focuses on a community known as 'Deep Sea'.

A formerly all-white South African suburb of Johannesburg has transitioned into a 'sprawling racial melange.'

Buses with names such as "The Terrorist," "Highway Massacre" and "The Ticket to Hell" contribute to the highest vehicular fatality rate in the world.

Johannesburg's Alexandra township, densely populated and economically depressed, is undergoing rejuvenation.