10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

More than 7,000 miles from the lavish fanfare of New York City’s Fifth Avenue, Kibera’s bustling streets tell a divergent story of fashion ingenuity. Throughout the Nairobi area settlement, bold ...

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, housing more than 250,000 of the 2.5 million slum dwellers in the city of 4 million. This story is the third in a five-part series about displacement and the ...

Kennedy Odede, the Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) founder, has been crowned a Kaya elder after rising from Kibera to ...

Home to approximately half a million people, Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is East Africa’s largest informal settlement. Overcrowded and underfunded, the community is faced with hardship and poverty. Even ...

On Wednesday afternoons, after the final bell of the day, a cement-walled classroom in the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is transformed into a ballet studio. The room is cleared of its ...

NAIROBI, KENYA — Not many good news stories make it out of Kibera, a sprawling slum in the heart of the Kenyan capital, and the ones that do usually reflect the rougher side of life in this ...

For residents of the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, the early Christmas ballet show celebrates community resilience and creativity. With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers ...

Ken Okoth sends these images through his relatives in Kenya. They live in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, and have fled to Tanzania. Okoth checked in this morning with news of his family. He writes ...

KIBERA, Kenya — Nearly 10 months after a grandmother in England became the first person in the world to get vaccinated against Covid-19 outside of a clinical trial, we were finally able to start ...

Panari Hotel Marketing Executive Belinda Njagi (right) presents foodstuffs and snacks to Kibera Pride Children's Home manager Lucy Odhiambo as corporate social responsibility on December 6, 2024.