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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A billion people worldwide live in slums, largely invisible to city services and governments — but not to satellites. A global movement is... In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An 'Invisible' Slum On The Map ...
March 1 (UPI) --Just across Thika highway from the green glade of Muthaiga's elite golf club, Nairobi's second-largest slum, Mathare, is home to around 600,000 people. Cut off from the city's main ...
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 ...