10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

More than 7,000 miles from the lavish fanfare of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, Kibera’s bustling streets tell a divergent story of fashion ingenuity. Throughout the Nairobi area settlement, bold ...

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, housing more than 250,000 of the 2.5 million slum dwellers in the city of 4 million. This story is the third in a five-part series about displacement and the ...

One by one, the women stood up to tell their stories. They were mothers, in one case a grandmother, to some of the 45 girls chosen from more than 300 applicants to form the premiere class of the first ...

On Wednesday afternoons, after the final bell of the day, a cement-walled classroom in the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is transformed into a ballet studio. The room is cleared of its ...

NAIROBI, KENYA — Not many good news stories make it out of Kibera, a sprawling slum in the heart of the Kenyan capital, and the ones that do usually reflect the rougher side of life in this ...

KIBERA, Kenya — Nearly 10 months after a grandmother in England became the first person in the world to get vaccinated against Covid-19 outside of a clinical trial, we were finally able to start ...

Saviour Juma, the main guide in Kibera, Nairobi, who helps show the murals found in Fort Jesus, Olympic and Jamuhuri estates. "All cities are mad, but the madness is gallant". This quote by American ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global water treatment company Pentair plc, the Pentair Foundation, and Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) recently completed a multi-year endeavor to expand access to safe ...

Panari Hotel Marketing Executive Belinda Njagi (right) presents foodstuffs and snacks to Kibera Pride Children's Home manager Lucy Odhiambo as corporate social responsibility on December 6, 2024.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Ahmed Musa points at a bullet hole. He says the projectile was fired by police officers on Sunday night. [Beverlyne ...

As COVID-19 takes hold in Kenya’s capital, hundreds of thousands living in cramped informal settlements are especially vulnerable. Paramedics, members of the fire brigade, and volunteers with the ...