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 ...

But conditions here are dire, as the slum remains excluded from urban planning. There is no sewage system, no waste ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children. Every afternoon at four o'clock, Joseph Otieno unlocks a dented metal door ...

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi's unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law into their own ...