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 ...

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 ...

Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...

It is Friday morning, and the southeastern fringe of Kibera slum comes alive as teams of women and youngsters converge on the edge of the Nairobi dam. There, on its northern perimeter, some rake and ...

Some eight kilometres outside of the Nairobi city centre, Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera, buzzes with all manner of business activity in the corrugated iron stalls that line its roads, from fast food ...

NAIROBI, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With human waste from a burst sewer oozing down the main street of Kenya's largest slum, annoyed residents have been bombarding the Facebook page of ...

Nairobi, Kenya — Health worker Elizabeth Wanjiru was walking through the narrow streets of Kenya's largest slum earlier this year when she came across two schoolboys pointing at something in a muddy ...

Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required. Heaps of garbage in Kibera, Nairobi — one of ...

Kefa Otiso previously received funding from the University of Minnesota and the Rockefeller Foundation to conduct the doctoral fieldwork research on Nairobi's slum and squatter settlements that is the ...