Behind much of this transformation stands Afribit, a youth-driven initiative led by Ronnie Mdawida and Programs Manager Mitch Odhiambo. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke ...

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.

Kibera, one of the world’s biggest slums, is a “glaring omission” on Google Maps, says Erica Hagen, member of the Map Kibera team. Indeed, Kibera remains a blank spot in relatively well-mapped and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fire broke out in the Mashimoni area of Lindi village in Kibera on the evening of September 3, displacing residents and injuring three people, according to officials. The blaze, which began around 7 ...

After weeks marked by tension, violent clashes, killings, rioting and looting, residents of Kenya's biggest slum, Kibera, have slowly begun rebuilding their lives. But even as an anxious calm returned ...

On Thursday's BPP, we'll hear from Ken Okoth. These days, he's a history teacher at the Potomac School outside D.C., but he grew up in the giant Nairobi slum of Kibera. He spent much of Wednesday ...

Nairobi’s Kibera slum is synonymous with the so-called flying toilets. But things are getting better - over the last decade, Kibera has experienced a major sanitation transformation. Lack of toilets ...

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 ...