NAIROBI: ACCORDING to the Afrobarometer report, based on surveys conducted by experts from the University of Nairobi in Kenya ...

In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children. Every afternoon at four o'clock, Joseph Otieno unlocks a dented metal door ...

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 ...

The rise of China from widespread poverty over the years to becoming the world’s largest economy in just a few years remains one of the most interesting lessons that Africa, and specifically Kenya, ...

International aid flooded into Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, but quality-of-life improvements didn't follow for most Haitians.

Informality in African cities is not only a symptom of failed governance, but it is also a calculated electoral strategy, deliberately cultivated to serve vested political interests. Politicians ...

Apecu, L.S. and Zabibu, N. (2026) The Role of Parenting in the Proliferation of Street Children: Evidence from River Oli Division, Arua City, Uganda. Open Access Library Journal, 13, 1-14. doi: ...

Located in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Code with Kids, a community-focused organization dedicated to providing affordable and accessible science, technology, ...

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

Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya. The United Nations says cattle-keeping ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above ...