NAIROBI (Reuters) – When lawyer Shadrack Wambui was growing up in one of Nairobi’s slums, he vented his frustration at abusive police through boxing, cultivating discipline that helped him avoid ...

(Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Every evening on the outskirts of Mwiki, Kasarani, John Gicharu huffs and puffs with upcoming boxers at his Ruaraka ...

MEDELLIN, Colombia, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a pink dusk settles on this poor hillside slum in the city of Medellin, 19-year-old Esteban Arrieta skips and shadow punches with a small ...

Across the stinking bay from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro sprawls the infamous Complexo da Maré, one of the largest and most violent of the city’s 500-odd slum communities. From the main ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 17 (Reuters) - Beneath a street lamp in one of Rio de Janeiro's slums, 19-year-old boxer Wanderson de Oliveira does pull-ups from a metal bar outside the Fight for Peace academy ...

Every evening on the outskirts of Mwiki, Kasarani, John Gicharu huffs and puffs with upcoming boxers at his Ruaraka Boxing Club (RBC), which he founded in 2015 after quitting professional boxing with ...

(Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of ...