Five African women are leading research and community-focused initiatives aimed at solving some of Africa’s biggest challenges, from health systems to climate change and governance. Armed with ...

In Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi and one of the largest slums in Africa, the biggest defenses against the spread of COVID-19—social distancing and frequent ...

A stone's throw from Kenya's largest informal settlement, a young woman glides down a spotlit catwalk, her delicate white dress at odds with the fake blood splattered across it and the tape covering ...

For women and girls living in Nairobi slums, violence comes in every form and from every direction. More than half are scarred by physical, sexual or psychological violence, according to a new ...

Ageing with HIV is now a global public health reality, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and the response must evolve to ...

Mia le Roux, who became the first deaf woman to be crowned Miss South Africa last year, smiles for cameras in the capital, ...

Phiyega, South Africa's first woman police chief, is under pressure to restore credibility and boost morale in a scandal-plagued force. Sorting out Khayelitsha would be a step in the right direction.

When Umutoni Thuku-Benzinge was a teenager, she used to sell Kenyan jewelry to her friends and family after she'd returned from her summer holidays on the African continent.

Moving people without taking their social and economic concerns into consideration isn’t the way to deal with urban slums.

A private university will offer training for women traders in Nairobi slums. Catholic University of Eastern Africa’s (CUEA) training will equip women in Kibera and Mathare slums with ...

By Nicky Milne CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these ...