NAIROBI, 24 October 2007 (IRIN)

Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums, with as many as one million in Kibera, Africa's largest such settlement, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Slum Survivors, IRIN's first full-length documentary, tells some of their stories.

COTONOU, 25 October 2007 (IRIN)

Highway Africa News Agency

Figures released by the United Nations Development Programme in Algiers show a timid evolution of ICTs in the Maghreb region with only 2,5% of Internet penetration.

None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa Edited by: Notisha Massaquoi & Selly Thiam WE are collecting stories of Africans from the continent and within the diasporic communities that identify as queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (QLGBT).