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 ...

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, 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, ...

Life isn’t easy in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums. About one million people live in this sprawling settlement in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, with limited access to electricity, running water and ...

This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the fourth in a five-part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban ...

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya — In Kibera, Africa’s biggest slum, you can scratch out a living by preaching, begging, frying dough, burning charcoal, selling pirated DVDs or making illicit moonshine.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The local children are keen users of their community library at the edge of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. Every afternoon at four ...

Sprawling Kibera slums is on the world map being the biggest urban slum dwelling in the continent and one of the largest on the globe. Housing hundreds of thousands Kibera is a cultural and political ...

Kibera Girls Soccer Academy beat Kibera Starlets 3-2 on post-match penalties to win the third edition of the Football Mums tournament held at DC grounds in Kibera.The match had ended 1-1 in regulation ...