Kenya, Africa

Joseph Maina rummages through waste at Boma, the nickname for the Dandora municipal dumpsite in the eastern part of Nairobi. He is looking for...

“Change cannot be realised if people cannot be given time to express themselves and talk of the problems they are facing” ...

After two months of post-election violence, the humanitarian focus is shifting to help the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons...

Angela, in her thirties, who did not wish to be identified, was born in the vast slum of Kibera in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and has...

Besides education, health and good infrastructure, access to credit ranks high among the priorities of millions of Kenyans living in informal...

Kenya's general elections in December hold special promise for Willis "Booster" Mbatia, a resident of the sprawling Mathare slums, one of the...

To escape the poverty trap, the world's 50 least developed countries (LDCs) must narrow the technology gap between them and the rest of the world,...

AIDS does not only travel with truckers along African highways; it flies business class with men in dark suits, crawls into marriages and lurks in...

The 2007 report on progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is pessimistic on Africa’s chances of achieving the targets...