This week I had the privilege of attending what most of my readers will not be familiar with and resonates extremely well in ...

In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water.

Kennedy Odede, the Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) founder, has been crowned a Kaya elder after rising from Kibera to touch the lives of 4.1 million Kenyans.

Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

In our weekly series on living in Nairobi, Sammy Kimatu and Elvis Ondieki get schooled on which came first between ‘Kibra’ ...

A slum-based healthcare rightsorganisation wants the new HIV prevention drug to be first rolled out in poorneighbourhoods to bear much of the epidemic’s brunt.The lobby also wants healthcare workers ...

The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) issued a statement on the low-pressure system “CHENGE” (Residual Depression) ...

SHOFCO Founder Dr. Kennedy Odede crowned Kaya Elder by Mijikenda elders in Kwale, urging unity and culture-driven grassroots development.

Kibra slum residents arrive for the collection of their keys to their new houses in Kibera Soweto East Zone 'A' , Nairobi County. [Elvis Ogina,Standard] Ongoing efforts by President William Ruto to ...

Sitting on a low bench at her shop in a Nairobi slum, Grace Wangari sifted through a handful of grains that a waiting customer had just ordered.

Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, who was imprisoned multiple times while fighting one-party autocracy and ran five times ...