Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Gundo buys chips at a shop that accepts bitcoin payments at Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya ...

Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa's largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. Around 200 people use bitcoin in Soweto West, a neighborhood of the Kibera slum in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa's largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

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 ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

The slums in the Global South hold the key to building circular cities in other developing countries, according to Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers. Slums, a term used to describe informal ...

Ruto made the promise last Sunday, during a church function next to the Kibera slum in Nairobi. He said the ambitious vision will be achieved through his government’s Affordable Housing Project.

Pope Francis will visit a refugee camp and a mosque in the Central African Republic as well as a slum in Kenya during a trip to Africa next month loaded with potential security risks. The pontiff will ...

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...