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

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.

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.

In the heart of one of Nairobi's most impoverished neighborhoods, where corrugated iron roofs stretch across the Mukuru slum, ...

Comedian Daniel Squiro faced severe hardship and depression. After collapsing, he seeks support from Kenyans as he struggles ...

Founder and CEO Dr. Kennedy Odede was on Tuesday crowned a Kaya Elder by the Mijikenda Kaya Elders Association during a colorful and spiritually rich ceremony held deep within the sacred Kaya Similani ...

In the first of a two-part series, experts warn that without urgent action, drug-resistant infections could cause millions of ...

A slum-based healthcare rightsorganisation wants the new HIV prevention drug to be first rolled out in poorneighbourhoods to bear much of the epidemic’s brunt.The lobby also wants healthcare workers ...

Kirinyaga County has distributed about 6,400 free meko gas cookers to local families, in a bid to tackle climate change, ...

The World Health Organisation, WHO, has called on national and city leaders to transform urban areas into engines of health, equity, and sustainability as the world marks World Cities Day.

Affordable home ownership has a huge range of effects, beyond just providing somewhere to live, said Tanu Kumar ’12. "When ...