Every day, men and women pour out of Nairobi slums in Kenya to become the guards, housekeepers and gardeners at the gated houses of people with money. Stanley Gazemba is one of them. He's a gardener.

*NAIROBI, Kenya — Nairobi’s urban slums have become the breeding grounds for well-off street gangs. Violent robbery has long been associated with young men from impoverished backgrounds. The trend, ...

A two-year-old toddler was beheaded and chopped up in a Nairobi slum, Kenyan police said, amid a fierce crackdown on an illegal sect blamed for a string of murders and decapitations. The boy's ...

In Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, it is estimated that over 70% of the population live in informal settlements. Many of these have a history rooted in colonial policies whereby the “African native” ...

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the School of ...