A diverse crowd of more than 40 students gathered in the Howard Thurman Center last night for a screening of the documentary Slum Survivors, a film that follows five residents of Kibera, a Nairobi, ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's poorest women risk the deadly diseases related to poor sanitation because "endemic" sexual violence in the capital's sprawling slums keeps them away from its communal ...
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.
Kenya’s slum-dwellers are struggling to survive on the climate crisis frontline - ON THE GROUND: A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for ...
Former lecturer at the University of Nairobi and researcher Prof PeterNgau addresses the media at the Kenya School of Government/Gilbert KoechCommunity-driven solutions and stronger governmentsupport ...
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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 ...
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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — With perfect ...
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 ...
The government has declared May 10 a day of mourning to mark the deaths from disastrous floods and pledged to help. But some say the authorities... In Kenya's flooded slums, people mourn their losses ...
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 ...
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 ...