In the Kenya Kibera slum, an independently led and funded soccer league is credited with a remarkable reduction in criminality and substance abuse.

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 ...

The famous Karanja area in Kibera slums stands out as the swanky section of the expansive informal settlement. But there is disquiet from a section of residents over the name.

However, a local NGO that has been surveying the poverty situation in Kibera slum says, unbearable squalor and grinding poverty will follow most of them into their new quarters.

Nairobi, Kenya • Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with… ...

Using a crutch to bear her weight, 85-year-old Molly Aluoch trudges from her mud-walled room on the outskirts of a sprawling ...

Young dancers perform, during a Christmas ballet event in Kibera slum, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga ...

A stone's throw from Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement, a young woman glides down a spotlit catwalk, her delicate ...

Kenya President William Ruto has made a promise to completely overhaul Kibera, one of the biggest slums in Africa, into an estate in the next 10 years.

The BBC's East Africa correspondent Andrew Harding investigates life in Africa's largest slum, where one in three Nairobi residents live.