In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water.

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, housing more than 250,000 of the 2.5 million slum dwellers in the city of 4 million. This story is the third in a five-part series about displacement and the ...

Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

It is has been three months since the Kibera slum upgrade project, which is being undertaken by the National Youth Services (NYS), was launched. And according to Lydia Mathia, the advisor on youth ...

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.

Several families from Kibera slums in Nairobi were kicked out of new homes they occupied last year under the slum upgrading project. On Monday, belongings of at least three families were dumped ...

Ken Okoth sends these images through his relatives in Kenya. They live in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, and have fled to Tanzania. Okoth checked in this morning with news of his family. He writes ...

Kibera is the largest slum area in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa. This documentary depicts three important problems; violence, drugs (miraa) and albinos killing.The 2009 Kenya ...

Kenya President William Ruto has made a promise to completely overhaul Kibera, one of the biggest slums in Africa, into an estate in the next 10 years. Ruto made the promise last Sunday, during a ...

On Wednesday afternoons, after the final bell of the day, a cement-walled classroom in the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is transformed into a ballet studio. The room is cleared of its ...

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 ...