When Denis Jobin, a senior evaluation specialist at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), visited a slum in Kenya in ...

Residents of Mathare area 4A at the scene where a man was stabbed to death as he took his son to school on Jan 20, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard] The residents of Mathare in Nairobi clashed with ...

The Mathare Valley, shown here in an aerial map, is one of the largest and oldest slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Residents are using hand-held GPS devices to map the area, which comprises 13 villages ...

In Mathare, like other informal settlements in the capital, daily life has been shaped by historic government neglect, with its almost 69,000 residents lacking adequate access to clean drinking ...

Protesters march in Mathare on June 8, 2020 to call for an end to police brutality. It is 3pm in Mathare, a sprawling informal settlement at the heart of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

Residents of the Mathare slum area of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are now able to access water through an ATM-style dispenser. People living in slums traditionally rely on vendors, who are expensive ...

At least five people, including two children, lost their lives early Monday morning when a devastating fire swept through the Mathare B section of Nairobi’s Mathare slums. According to police ...

Nine young men were shot dead overnight in post election violence in Nairobi's Mathare slum and have been brought to the city morgue, a security official told Reuters on Saturday.

Most toilets in Mathare charge a pay-per-use fee between KES 3 and KES 10 per use (USD$0.03 - USD$0.10). If they can afford the “family fee” (a bulk payment), then they can pay KES 100 to KES ...