Mexican president’s popularity soars even as country faces persistent turmoil
Amlo’s pension program helped boost his approval rating, but critics point to his various shortcomings as his term nears its end Life isn’t easy for...
Category : Poverty
‘The children screamed for hours’: horrors of Hurricane Otis leave devastation for Acapulco’s poorest
Mexico’s Pacific coast was battered by 165mph winds and torrential rain on 25 October. Thousands lost their homes and many now have too little food...
Lone renter in ‘David and Goliath’ row with Montreal developers
Carla White’s battle has shone a light on city’s lack of affordable new housing for those on low incomes A single tenant in a Montreal...
Sudan faces ‘generational catastrophe’ as millions of children miss school
Floods, militia raids and hunger mean a third of children are not in school at all, while the rest have too few teachers, aid groups...
Gang warfare traps thousands in Haiti slum as fuel crisis add to desperation
Calls for aid to be let into Port-au-Prince district after ‘battlefield’ violence leaves dozens dead and cuts supplies of food and water Haiti’s capital has...
Bid to overturn Sierra Leone loitering laws that activists claim ‘criminalise poverty’
Citing claims of violence and rape by police, lawyers and activists mount legal challenge to laws brought in under British rule A case has been...
BlackRock urged to delay debt repayments from crisis-torn Zambia
Anti-poverty campaigners say world’s largest fund manager refuses to reduce or delay payments on Zambia’s debt BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager, has come under...