A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for those living in the ...

Young men who once lived the “gangster life” in Kenya's capital have become farmers with a social mission. MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in ...

More than 100 brutal murders in and around Nairobi, Kenya, have residents frightened and police baffled. Among the dead are a dozen police officers as well as schoolchildren and scores of people who ...

In Kenya’s Kibera slum, an independently led and funded soccer league is credited with a remarkable reduction in criminality and substance abuse. Shadows dance together on the dry red earth as the ...

Slums are often associated with everything negative. But in a musical, Mo Faya, currently running at the GoDown Arts Centre the message is different: "They call it a Slum, We call it Home." The story ...

Kenya grieves the death of former premier Raila Odinga, a major political figure who spent most of his life in the opposition ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...