Most residents of Nairobi’s slums live in extreme poverty, meaning they exist on just a couple of dollars a day. With such meager earnings, the increasing cost of living in recent years has made life ...

Over 127,000 slum dwellers living along Nairobi, Ngong' and Mathare rivers face displacement if the government's plan to clean up the city is implemented. The 4,236 structures erected on the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP ... informal settlements and industrial hubs. The river and its tributaries cross Kibera, known as Africa’s largest slum with close to 200,000 residents, and other ...

It is conducted in the middle of a narrow dust path in one of the slums of ... in the filthy rivers. So far nothing is happening; however, the near future may see the Nairobi city council and ...

Kenya's authorities say the ... Several workers were cleaning up the badly polluted Nairobi River that flows through Korogocho, one of the city's biggest slums, when they made the grim discovery.

Joseph Mwangi hoped and prayed his children had escaped the inferno caused when a leaking gasoline pipeline exploded on Monday, sending flames racing through a Nairobi slum and killing at least 75 ...

The fetid stuff from slums ... and the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC) notice to sort out the mess or face the consequences. “The prime apartments near the river were in high ...

these were Nairobi’s slums. Not hidden, but certainly forgotten. The current government of Kenya has signalled its intention to boldly confront the challenge of slum upgrading at scale.

Though Isabella Mogeni lost everything she owned, she was lucky to survive the heavy storm waters that swept through the Mukuru kwa Reuben slums in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, killing dozens of her ...