Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Gundo buys chips at a shop that accepts bitcoin payments at Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya ...

This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the fourth in a five-part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban ...

In Kenya’s Kibera slum, an independently led and funded soccer league is credited with a remarkable reduction in criminality and substance abuse. Shadows dance together on the dry red earth as the ...

Sprawling Kibera slums is on the world map being the biggest urban slum dwelling in the continent and one of the largest on the globe. Housing hundreds of thousands Kibera is a cultural and political ...

10,000 new residents arrive in Kibera every year. At such a dizzying rate, it is no wonder that the slum, in southern Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest in Africa. The community was first settled when the ...

KIBERA, Kenya -- Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa's largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

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If the feared violence erupts today around the contested presidential election in Kenya, it may appear inevitable in retrospect. But the activism of an internationally known nonprofit called Shofco in ...

On Thursday's BPP, we'll hear from Ken Okoth. These days, he's a history teacher at the Potomac School outside D.C., but he grew up in the giant Nairobi slum of Kibera. He spent much of Wednesday ...