A government official wants communities in informal settlements to implement basic fire safety measures as part of efforts to contain tragedies linked to outbreaks. This follows separate fire ...

At least one other group in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, Human Needs Project, does similar work of urging youth away from crime and addressing food insecurity through urban farming. It's a model that can be ...

Six people died on the spot while 20 others suffered severe injuries after a fire incident occurred on Saturday morning, May ...

The beat of the atabaque drum echoes through the streets of Kibera. It's accompanied ... Here in one of Africa's largest slums, on the outskirts of Kenyan capital Nairobi, capoeira is taking ...

A dramatic moment involving President William Ruto unfolded after a woman appeared to pull him in an incident that could have ...

A lot of friends of mine were killed, [before the league’s creation].” Born and raised in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, Erick first feels the need to explain the violence and despair that affects ...

Indian travel vlogger Akash Chaudhary took to Instagram, sharing a compelling video documenting life inside Kibera, one of Africa’s and the world’s largest slums, located in Nairobi ...

Hundreds of residents in Kenya’s Nairobi cheered as the nimble ballerinas, wearing Santa hats and sparkling colorful outfits, turned the dusty narrow roads of the neighborhood of Kibera into a ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

MATHARE, Kenya — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga’s brother was shot dead ...

Nairobi, Kenya – Kibera, Nairobi’s largest informal settlement, is often reduced to images of poverty – rusted tin rooftops, open sewers and overcrowded homes. But a community project is ...

For residents of the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, the early Christmas ballet ... iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of residents in ...