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

In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, Kenyan ballet dancer Joel Kioko, 16, strikes a pose as a joke as he walks through the courtyard of a school where he was teaching young dancers, in the Kibera ...

Though Isabella Mogeni lost everything she owned, she was lucky to survive the heavy storm waters that swept through the Mukuru kwa Reuben slums in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, killing dozens of her ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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 ...

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.

Nairobi, Feb 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Corruption, poor management and lack of public consultation have hurt repeated efforts by the Kenyan government and donors to improve slums, including ...

NAIROBI, Jan 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on a low bench at her shop in a Nairobi slum, Grace Wangari sifted through a handful of grains that a waiting customer had just ordered. As she ...

SEDALIA, Mo. -- A friendship between a young man from Kenya and a Sedalia woman has resulted in a church outreach to a slum village half a world away. Betty Hopkins met Nicholas "Nick" Musyoka at a ...

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