Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, are some of the worst and most densely populated in the world. But Eric Omwanda, a Mathare ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...

On the eastern side of Nairobi (Kenya’s capital city), lies Mathare Valley slums. The slum, one of the oldest in Africa, is home to over half a million households all confined within a mere square ...

Action between Mathare United FC and New Mathare FC during 1XBet Mtaani Football For Good Initiative friendly match held at the Mathare Depot Grounds in Nairobi at the weekend. [Mathare United, File] ...

"MYSA just started multiplying, and then 10 years later it was 1,000 teams, 1,200 teams, and today we’re 1,800 teams," Bob Munro says. (Dick Gordon/Only A Game) Want more Only A Game? Follow along on ...

Residents burn fires late at night on a street to protest the death of James Mureithi, a homeless man who protesters alleged was shot dead by police during the nightly dusk-to-dawn curfew established ...

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing. In ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The three-person crew of Slum TV set out under the hot noon sun, slinging a video camera and microphone through the crooked labyrinth of iron-sided shacks, graffitied beer joints, ...

A Paris exhibition shows how young photographers from a Nairobi Slum capture a truth outsiders miss The Shootback group on day one of the project in August 1997, holding their new cameras for the ...

The Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, are some of the worst and most densely populated in the world. But Eric Omwanda, a Mathare native, wants to change the status quo. He helped start up the Mathare ...