Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker takes a swab from a woman during a mass testing in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease ...

Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a non-communicable disease that occurs when there is a sustained elevation in the pressure of the blood that flows through the arteries.

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the School of ...

Every day, men and women pour out of Nairobi slums in Kenya to become the guards, housekeepers and gardeners at the gated houses of people with money. Stanley Gazemba is one of them. He's a gardener.

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 ...

Clashes erupted in a Nairobi slum Sunday after four bodies were found in the streets, hiking tensions on the eve of a Supreme Court ruling on the validity of last months divisive election re-run. The ...

Slum dwellers in Nairobi heavily rely on solid fuels for cooking and heating because they cannot afford clean fuels or electricity. They use unclean biomass, which contributes about 15 per cent of PM2 ...

*NAIROBI, Kenya — Nairobi’s urban slums have become the breeding grounds for well-off street gangs. Violent robbery has long been associated with young men from impoverished backgrounds. The trend, ...

Group leader Jane Waithageni Kimaru, 60 years old, strikes a punching bag to show women how to fight off a potential rapist and escape, during a Taekwondo self-defense class for women in the Korogocho ...

In Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, it is estimated that over 70% of the population live in informal settlements. Many of these have a history rooted in colonial policies whereby the "African native" ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is rolling out voluntary public testing for the novel coronavirus in its biggest slum, where some residents say being declared virus-free boosts their chances of getting a ...