KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community advocacy ...

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 ...

Eunice Akinyi needs water. She's come to this kiosk to collect a supply. In Kibera, one of Africa’s largest informal settlements, finding a clean, affordable water source can be difficult. But this ...

THE SKY OVER KIBERA is an art film: it tells us about the "bringing to life" of the Divine Comedy in the immense slum of Nairobi, Kibera, where the director has worked with 150 children and ...

I had only lived in Kibera for 15 minutes when I saw a police officer and was arrested. But it would be years before I saw a real doctor. In 2001, at the age of 13, I had come to Kenya’s largest ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you trek far enough into Kibera—through the maze of scrap-metal houses connected by webs of live wires running roof to roof, and down a slippery hill toward a peeling blue iron door that towers so ...

John Kibera loved robbing the dead as there were no police in graveyards In his heydays as a robber, he relied on newspaper obituary pages to pick targets Now reformed, Kibera preaches in the streets ...

From the narrow alleys of Kibera to a Mathematics classroom in North Carolina, Christopher Amollo Onyango rose through resilience and education The Maseno University graduate earned a Second Class ...