A suspected thug was shot and killed in a failed robbery in Nairobi’s Korogocho slums.Police said they recovered a home-made ...

According to Sakaja, the management of the Nairobi River riparian corridor is urgent, as unregulated development, solid waste pollution and climate-change-driven rainfall fluctuations have contributed ...

In Nairobi’s Kibera slum, a recycling board game is changing how locals manage waste. Created by environmentalist Sam Dindi, ...

The warning is for major markets in the city, including Toi, Gikomba, and Burma, with officials saying Nairobians are staring ...

During President Ruto's historic visit to China, the two sides agreed to establish a Chinese Cultural Centre in Nairobi.

I had not been to Nairobi in a couple of years, yet, just like the last time I visited, I was shocked by the speed at which ...

"We could not work; we had to leave." Residents in massive slum grapple with worsening crisis: 'I am afraid' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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

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

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.

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.

Illegally placed electrical wires that are sometimes poorly insulated, plus the dumping of fuel in storm drains, spell disaster.