Thousands displaced from Makoko, Nigeria's largest floating slum following demolitions by authorities. And Sierra Leone sets remembrance day for civil war victims.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The teeming, floating Makoko slum rises out of the murky lagoon water that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of ...

LAGOS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over ...

A family including baby twins has been forced to live in a wooden canoe after their home in a historic Lagos neighborhood was ...

More than 1,000 Makoko residents and displaced families marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly to protest ongoing demolition work in their ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

Protesters clashed with police in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday after parts of a large slum built on water, known as Makoko, was ...

But conditions here are dire, as the slum remains excluded from urban planning. There is no sewage system, no waste ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – In the waterfront slum of Makoko in Nigeria’s largest city where shacks stand above the murky, fetid water on stilts of cast-aside lumber, an architect thinks the neighborhood ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...