NAIROBI, Jan 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on a low bench at her shop in a Nairobi slum, Grace Wangari sifted through a handful of grains that a waiting customer had just ordered. As she ...

Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...

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 ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's poorest women risk the deadly diseases related to poor sanitation because "endemic" sexual violence in the capital's sprawling slums keeps them away from its communal ...

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 ...

Defying the sweltering afternoon heat, Jenny Fair and her young peers huddled around a large table, marveling at remotely controlled robots making circular motions. Currently in Grade Seven, the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — 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 ...

Kenya’s slum-dwellers are struggling to survive on the climate crisis frontline - ON THE GROUND: A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for ...