More than 7,000 miles from the lavish fanfare of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, Kibera’s bustling streets tell a divergent story of fashion ingenuity. Throughout the Nairobi area settlement, bold ...

10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the fourth in a five-part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community advocacy ...

If the feared violence erupts today around the contested presidential election in Kenya, it may appear inevitable in retrospect. But the activism of an internationally known nonprofit called Shofco in ...

In Kenya’s Kibera slum, an independently led and funded soccer league is credited with a remarkable reduction in criminality and substance abuse. Shadows dance together on the dry red earth as the ...

In many houses inside Nairobi's Kibera slum, residents have two power connections: legal and illegal. This is part of our six-piece Failed Aid series, which investigates citizen reports on failed or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Gundo buys chips at a shop that accepts bitcoin payments at Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa's largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

Several families from Kibera slums in Nairobi were kicked out of new homes they occupied last year under the slum upgrading project. On Monday, belongings of at least three families were dumped ...