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 ...

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 ...

One by one, the women stood up to tell their stories. They were mothers, in one case a grandmother, to some of the 45 girls chosen from more than 300 applicants to form the premiere class of the first ...

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 ...

A young dancer performs on a simple stage at the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Dec. 23, 2025. A Christmas ballet performance ...

One of Samuel’s tour guides points down the track toward Mombasa. During the height of Kenya’s July-August tourist season, tens of thousands of travelers from around the world come here for wildlife ...

Rozelda Kim, 21, a participant in Mr. & Ms. Kibera 2025, reacts with emotion after being named Miss Kibera 2025 on the main stage on church grounds in the Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi, on ...

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 ...

As schools, colleges, and training institutions prepare for January admissions, demand for quality uniforms across Kenya ...

The incident was reported by the area chief, through the chief controller, prompting an emergency response by officers from the Nairobi Region, Kilimani Sub-County, and Kibra Police Station, including ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Ahmed Musa points at a bullet hole. He says the projectile was fired by police officers on Sunday night. [Beverlyne ...

As COVID-19 takes hold in Kenya’s capital, hundreds of thousands living in cramped informal settlements are especially vulnerable. Paramedics, members of the fire brigade, and volunteers with the ...