Jeff Mohammed, 20, has overcome great odds to become a talented, award-winning documentary and filmmaker. He tells JOAN BARSULAI how he has excelled with borrowed equipment I was born in Mathare in ...

On the eastern side of Nairobi (Kenya’s capital city), lies Mathare Valley slums. The slum, one of the oldest in Africa, is home to over half a million households all confined within a mere square ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of movie lovers gathered in front of a giant outdoor screen in Nairobi's Mathare slum on Monday at the start of the Slum Film Festival, which aims to ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...

MATHARE, Kenya (Reuters) - Slum dwellers live in fear and eye each other with suspicion in the "Kosovo" district of Nairobi's Mathare slum, where men armed with machetes guard their homes and say they ...