Lunch break in Kibera Slum School, Nairobi, Kenya. A study led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found the need for adequate housing to be “particularly acute” in Africa, since the continent has the fastest growing population in the world, predicted to rise from 1.2 billion people in 2015 to 2.5 billion people by 2050.

First published in the March 29, 2019, 7:00 p.m. edition

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