In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children .

People gather around the debris of houses burned down during a fire at Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 17, 2026. A ...

With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with sewage, ...

From Connecticut to Kenya, fundraising is changing lives. It started when a local veteran made a trip to the African country in December. Now one act of kindness has evolved, and has the potential to ...

Residents of Kibera slums demonstrate outside the Ministry of Lands offices to protest issuance of allotment letter to members of the Nubian community. They demanded that title deeds be issued to all ...

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.

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 ...