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 ...

Around 60% of the Kenyan capital's 4.4 million inhabitants live in 200 high-density informal settlements like Kibera, which account for around 6% of the city's total land area. African leaders, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ruto made the promise last Sunday, during a church function next to the Kibera slum in Nairobi. He said the ambitious vision will be achieved through his government’s Affordable Housing Project.

With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's huge and squalid slums don't have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease. Now Kenyan designers have built a cooker ...

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KIBERA, Kenya -- 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 ...