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.

From firewood shortages to clean energy innovation, the idea is redefining school kitchens across Kenya. When Justine Abuga walked into a children’s home in Dandora Phase Five 13 years ago, he had no ...

This technical breakthrough is seen as critical in Mukuru’s dense, informal terrain, where narrow, unpaved corridors wind ...

Tristan Azbej, Hungary’s state secretary for persecuted Christians, discusses how Hungary Helps, his nation’s international ...

A group of Nubian women in Kenya’s largest informal settlement is using hydroponics and circular gardening to revive ...

Why do slums co-exist with affluent neighbourhoods? Mukuru with South B, Kangemi with Loresho, Githogori with Runda, Mathare with Muthaiga, Deep Sea with Spring Valley? Other towns outside Nairobi ...

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

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, who was imprisoned while fighting one-party autocracy and ran five times unsuccessfully for the presidency, has died at the age of 80 ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, who was imprisoned multiple times while fighting one-party autocracy and ran five times unsuccessfully for president, died aged 80 on ...