Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Every month, Alice Shikuku has to choose between buying enough food for her family and buying sanitary pads for her daughter. Her family moved to Korogocho, one of the poorest ...

"If the Mau Forest is destroyed, Kenya will die." This is the stark message of the scientist and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Professor Wangari Maathai from the University of Nairobi. Poverty and climate ...

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi. Where do I start? A lot has happened since the presidential elections back in August. Currently, Kenya is in a really ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At a dilapidated orphanage on the outskirts of eastern Nairobi, children with twisted limbs and clawed hands are slumped in wheelchairs, lie foetal-like on ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — When his parents were killed in a rocket attack, the only person to show a lonely Somali boy named Abdi any kindness, or say a caring word, was a family friend named Abdufazil. The ...

Families sleeping on the streets or in informal shelters: this is the reality of Kenya’s acute homelessness crisis. In Nairobi, poverty, forced displacement and limited access to affordable housing ...

On March 27, 2020, Kenyan authorities introduced measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, including a dusk-to-dawn curfew and a directive to Kenyans to work from home. For “Wanjiku,” a ...

Rise in Poverty, Hunger Shows Need to Expand Social Protection (Nairobi) – The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill ...