Kibera

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How Kibera Affordable Housing Project Has Improved Security in Slums

At the heart of Africa’s biggest slums, Kibera, sits a housing project that could change how the slum area is viewed by the...

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CFK Africa Launches Microgrant Pilot Program In Kibera

CFK Africa, an international nonprofit with offices in Kenya and the US, is launching a microgrant pilot program in Kibera, the country’s largest...

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Journalists challenged to cover urban issues

Journalists, who took part in a recent training organised by UN-Habitat and the Aga Khan Graduate School of Media and Communications, were urged...

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Millions of shillings lost as Nairobi’s Toi market razed down

A huge fire has razed down stalls at Nairobi’s Toi Market in Kibera destroying property worth millions of shillings. According to witnesses the...

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Agnes Kagure Foundation to the rescue of Kibera fire victims

City-based organisation that empowers slum residents provides food and water in Mashimoni in Laini Saba

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Slum youth get funding to buy motorbikes

Okapi Finance partners with Diptop Agencies to provide loans for venturing in the growing boda boda business

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poa! internet’s Sh1,500 monthly package records steady uptake

With poa!’s wireless home Internet service, slum dwellers are now able to connect up to five devices to their home Wi-Fi router at...

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Mzungu who fell in love with chaotic Nairobi matatu

In his video, American travel blogger Drew Binsky says the city's shared matatus are more of disco parties on wheels that snake through...

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Low cost ISP deploys 200 internet access points in slums

In this short space of time, Poa! has already connected over 21,000 subscribers, many of whom could never have previously afforded to access...