Although Makoko may be known as a community with half of its population living on the water, majority of the community residents are facing serious challenges regarding access to portable water. In ...
Makoko has been drilled over an area measuring 4.5 kilometres by 1.5 kilometres and remains open Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo--(Newsfile Corp. - October 1, 2018) - Robert Friedland and Yufeng ...
In Makoko, Nigeria — a floating slum in a lagoon just outside Lagos — a three-story school building with a bright blue roof peers over the mud-colored village. Makoko stands out from the rest of the ...
The community based off the coast of Lagos appears in the rapper's music video for "Wish U Well" Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023. Her work ...
Residents of Makoko, a slum in the Yaba area of Lagos, have received free medical attention for various ailments, courtesy of Health Empowerment African Initiative, HEAI, during a 2-day medical ...
Makoko geologically resembles the Kamoa mines during the nascent days of development… and the Makoko deposit was already the fourth-largest copper discovery globally in the past decade when we last ...
Most evenings, Abigail Hounkpe can be found paddling her wooden canoe on the murky waters in Makoko, a waterfront community on the Lagos lagoon in Nigeria’s southwest. She stops in front of a church ...
In this photo taken Thursday, July 26, 2012, a child stand in front of his demolished stilt house at Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria. The teeming, floating Makoko slum rises out of the murky lagoon water ...
German music-lover Makoko celebrated his 34th birthday at the Johannesburg Zoo on Tuesday morning with a cake made of rolled oats, carrots and peanut butter, suitable for a gorilla's palette. He was ...