In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children.

KIBERA, Kenya -- Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa's largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

Bitcoin has enabled residents of Kibera, Kenya, an avenue to store income safely, avoiding theft and risks tied to carrying physical cash. Low fees make Bitcoin ideal for international remittances, ...

There have been concerns from Kenyans about suspicious arrests on Friday to deliberately keep them in remand until courts reopen on Monday.

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...

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 ...

NAIROBI: ACCORDING to the Afrobarometer report, based on surveys conducted by experts from the University of Nairobi in Kenya ...

No matter where you go in Kenya — from the vast expanses of the Great Rift Valley to the white-sand beaches off the Indian Ocean — one thing is a constant: plastic bags. They hang off trees and ...

Kibera Soccer women's Pauline Ochieng (R) in action with Trinity Starlets' Fabrish Ayako at Gilgil on Saturday/ HANDOUTKenya Women’s Premier League side Kibera Soccer Club have raised concerns over ...

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 ...