Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker takes a swab from a woman during a mass testing in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease ...

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

Group leader Jane Waithageni Kimaru, 60 years old, strikes a punching bag to show women how to fight off a potential rapist and escape, during a Taekwondo self-defense class for women in the Korogocho ...

Churches preached peace on Sunday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum that has been hit by days of violent demonstrations since last week's disputed presidential vote, but it was opposition leader Raila Odinga ...

In the slums of West Nairobi, up a plastic-pockmarked street lined with ditches flowing with sewage, is Kaka Shop. Selling everything from bread and eggs to candy and scratch cards, it is a ...

Every day, men and women pour out of Nairobi slums in Kenya to become the guards, housekeepers and gardeners at the gated houses of people with money. Stanley Gazemba is one of them. He's a gardener.

*NAIROBI, Kenya — Nairobi’s urban slums have become the breeding grounds for well-off street gangs. Violent robbery has long been associated with young men from impoverished backgrounds. The trend, ...

"When I started, there was poop in bags everywhere," said Ricky Ojwang, skillfully navigating a rubbish-strewn canal in Mukuru, a Nairobi slum where he's worked to improve sanitation since 2012. An ...

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the School of ...

On January 23, 2006, a five-storey building collapsed in Nyamakima, downtown Nairobi killing 14 people. More than 280 construction workers were working inside the building. Kenya did not have the ...