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

Valentine Stella, a dedicated teacher at Little Lions School in Kibera, transforms young lives by healing trauma and ...

The government is rolling out major development programmes in the capital Nairobi to set pace for national transformation, President William Ruto has said.The President said the Nairobi County ...

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 ...

People try to put out a fire in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 17, 2026. A fire broke out here on Saturday, causing dozens of houses burned down. No casualties have been reported yet. (Photo: ...

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 ...

At Mathari Hospital, flanking Nairobi’s Mathare slum, a grandmother waits in line to see a doctor, struggling to calm the crying baby in her arms.“It’s the heat rashes,” she tells a nurse, rolling off ...

Nairobi slums to end in 15 years, with construction 166,000 affordable house units ongoing. President Ruto said the government is rolling out transformative development programmes in Nairobi County to ...

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had warned that fierce competition over fresh water could replace oil as the world’s ...

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