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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...