like many others in other slums, have no water despite government order for Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company to provide free water to all the informal settlements in the capital city.

The allure of quick money, affirmation from society as well as protection from sexual molestation are leading girls barely out of their teens in some of Nairobi’s most deprived areas into a life ...

Chris and Alex are visiting Huruma, the second largest slum in Nairobi (350,00 est. population), where crime and drug use is high, half of the young people there live with HIV and around 80 per ...

Dennis Maina has risen from the hardships of slum life to become an entrepreneur and leader. This was driven by a desire to transform not only his life but also the lives of those in his community.

Milkaa Moraa Tegisi, a mum living in Mukuru kwa Njenga, Nairobi, can now smile as well-wishers came to her rescue after she ...

Reputedly Africa’s largest slum ... of Nairobi. On assignment to cover Israeli commercial and humanitarian efforts in Kenya, I stayed at a hotel for businessmen and traversed the city in ...

Young dancers run to go and perform at a Christmas ballet event in Kibera slum, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Brian Inganga - staff ...

Strewn across public lands, railway tracks and water streams, Kibera, the world’s third largest slum, is an imposing sight. Located just three miles from the vibrant, cosmopolitan charms of Nairobi, ...

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 ...

A chance encounter with a priest trying to fund a basketball court at a Catholic school in the Nairobi slum of Korogocho inspired ... over the constellation of city lights below.