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

Kibera's slums assault the senses like a barbeque in a hot toilet. Raw waste carves gullies along the ragged ribbons of bare earth that serve as side streets and alleys, where children crawl and play ...

In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children.

Kennedy Odede, aged 41, is a Kenyan social entrepreneur and the founder of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), a grassroots movement that started in the slums of Kibera. He made history in July ...

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 ...

Kenyan multi-talented artist Krysteen Savane, who is also the director of Anno's One Fine Day Art Centre, Kibera, has been awarded the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight ...

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 ...

Khaleb Omondi stood looking at the empty plot in front of him. He gaped at the space where his bookstore once stood, on the northern side of the train tracks in Laini Saba, one of Kibera’s 12 villages ...

•Edwin Andole was convicted on Monday before Kibera chief magistrate Joyce Gandani after he pleaded guilty. •Andole is accused of assaulting and injuring Hillary Owino on July 4 at Kibera Soweto area ...

Nairobi’s Kibera slum is synonymous with the so-called flying toilets. But things are getting better - over the last decade, Kibera has experienced a major sanitation transformation. Lack of toilets ...

A UN development financing summit opened in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Monday. It is being seen as crucial for efforts to end poverty, tackle climate change and create a fairer sustainable ...