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 ...

With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa’s largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of ...

Faith Mboya, Lucy Kisaga, Maximilla Robi and Cynthia Atieno are sidelined with injuries, while Essie Akida is ruled out as ...

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 ...

Bitcoin is quietly taking root in Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement (or slum). In July 2025, more than 200 locals now use BTC as a working medium of exchange for everyday transactions, ...

Khaleb Omondi stood looking at the empty plot in front of him. He gaped at the space where his bookstore once stood, on the northern side of the train tracks in Laini Saba, one of Kibera’s 12 villages ...

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 Soccer Women came from two goals down to beat Kenya Police Bullets 4-2 in an entertaining FKF Women’s Premier League clash on Wednesday at Marist University, Karen. Police struck first through ...

Many residents of Kibera, Nairobi's biggest slum, may not be participating in Kenya's presidential and parliamentary election next week. They're leaving town for fear of a repetition of the violence ...

Kenyan fashionista and photographer Stephen Okoth has made it his mission to stand out in Kibera, a large slum area in the capital, Nairobi. His signature bright clothes sourced from local second-hand ...

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 ...