A stone's throw from Kenya's largest informal settlement, a young woman glides down a spotlit catwalk, her delicate white dress at odds with the fake blood splattered across it and the tape covering ...

“Call Me Queen” tells the story of a fearless woman from Nairobi’s largest slum who finds unexpected kinship with an Irish ...

In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, around 60% of the population lives in slums or slum-like conditions. Previous research in Kenya’s urban slums shows high uncontrolled hypertension rates.

Slum dwellings along the capital’s riverbanks were swept away, while the government bulldozed 40,000 remaining homes within 30 meters (about 100 feet) of the Nairobi River for safety reasons.

Living in Nairobi’s slums is tough – residents are 35% more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than those in rural areas ...

More than 100 people are feared burned to death in a massive fire that engulfed a crowded slum in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi.

NAIROBI, May 27 -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell came to one of Nairobi's vast slums this morning to do what he has done in every country on his first tour of Africa: talk about AIDS.

According to research, the residents are most vulnerable because of their lifestyles and illegal electricity connections.

"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.

Slum dwellings along the capital’s riverbanks were swept away, while the government bulldozed 40,000 remaining homes within 30 meters (about 100 feet) of the Nairobi River for safety reasons.