"We could not work; we had to leave." Residents in massive slum grapple with worsening crisis: 'I am afraid' first appeared on The Cool Down.

In our weekly series on living in Nairobi, Sammy Kimatu and Elvis Ondieki get schooled on which came first between ‘Kibra’ ...

In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water.

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.

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.

Illegally placed electrical wires that are sometimes poorly insulated, plus the dumping of fuel in storm drains, spell ...

Kenyan authorities have intercepted a massive drug shipment in a high-seas operation supported by INTERPOL, seizing more than ...

Kenya's former prime minister and veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80. Widely regarded as one of the country's most influential political figures, Odinga shaped Kenya's ...

Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, who was imprisoned multiple times while fighting one-party autocracy and ran five times ...

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 ...