Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker takes a swab from a woman during a mass testing in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease ...

After five days of gang violence in a Nairobi slum that left at least seven people dead, Kenyan officials said on Thursday that calm has returned. Thousands of people fled their homes on Wednesday in ...

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the School of ...

Every day, men and women pour out of Nairobi slums in Kenya to become the guards, housekeepers and gardeners at the gated houses of people with money. Stanley Gazemba is one of them. He's a gardener.

Group leader Jane Waithageni Kimaru, 60 years old, strikes a punching bag to show women how to fight off a potential rapist and escape, during a Taekwondo self-defense class for women in the Korogocho ...

A two-year-old toddler was beheaded and chopped up in a Nairobi slum, Kenyan police said, amid a fierce crackdown on an illegal sect blamed for a string of murders and decapitations. The boy's ...

Improvements to infrastructure and services in Kenya's capital are boosting local incomes, reducing disaster risk, and laying the basis for greener development NAIROBI, April 16 (Thomson Reuters ...

*NAIROBI, Kenya — Nairobi’s urban slums have become the breeding grounds for well-off street gangs. Violent robbery has long been associated with young men from impoverished backgrounds. The trend, ...

In Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, it is estimated that over 70% of the population live in informal settlements. Many of these have a history rooted in colonial policies whereby the "African native" ...