KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

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 ...

Gaudencia Oludhe’s visit to Kibera slums opened her eyes to something she had never known before. Here, in one of Africa’s largest slums, she found out, it is the way of life for a mature man to marry ...

After struggling to support her children in Kibera, Isabella Juma sought work abroad in Saudi Arabia, only to face arrest, ...

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 ...

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.

Pellaa Nyangatare (left) and Ashah Adam make ugali to feed National Youth Service and Kibera cleaning cohorts at Makina in Kibera on 31/February/2015. The government has initiated Huduma Kitchen to ...

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 ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — 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 ...

Perhaps no other word evokes apathy and despondency in many people like the word slum. Most people associate it with anything filthy, wretched, perverse and oddly virulent. I remember with amusement ...