Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker takes a swab from a woman during a mass testing in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease ...

"When I started, there was poop in bags everywhere," said Ricky Ojwang, skillfully navigating a rubbish-strewn canal in Mukuru, a Nairobi slum where he's worked to improve sanitation since 2012.

Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a non-communicable disease that occurs when there is a sustained elevation in the pressure of the blood that flows through the arteries.

Former lecturer at the University of Nairobi and researcher Prof PeterNgau addresses the media at the Kenya School of Government/Gilbert KoechCommunity-driven solutions and stronger governmentsupport ...

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 ...

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the School of ...

I want to take this opportunity to thank the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) for the work they're doing - Starting up most roads projects in the informal settlements of Nairobi. In the past, it ...

Every day, men and women pour out of Nairobi slums in Kenya to become the guards, housekeepers and gardeners at the gated houses of people with money. Stanley Gazemba is one of them. He's a gardener.

NAIROBI, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water. The only way to get water ...

Traders and well-wishers, help salvage properties left, after fire razed down Grogon market in Nairobi, in an early Sunday morning incident on June 04 2017.The cause of fire not immediately known.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is rolling out voluntary public testing for the novel coronavirus in its biggest slum, where some residents say being declared virus-free boosts their chances of getting a ...

Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a non-communicable disease that occurs when there is a sustained elevation in the pressure of the blood that flows through the arteries.