Locals talk in hushed tones about this menace. The illegal liquor industry in Mathare is a cash cow for thousands of people who depend on it directly, and indirectly for a living. Our ...
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 ...
Benninah Nazau, a vegetable-hawker in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, recalls rain pounding on her tin roof at 5pm on April 23rd. When she peered out, she saw tables and chairs swept along by the nearby ...
The former forward passed away on Sunday evening in a German hospital after battling the illness for four years Former Kenya and Mathare United player Kevin Oliech, who is brother to Harambee ...
Many of the slum areas in the city, such as Mukuru and Mathare, have been built on marginal land along river valleys. Last Wednesday, the authorities retrieved a dozen bodies of people who had ...