Bitcoin is quietly taking root in Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement (or slum). In July 2025, more than 200 locals now use BTC as a working medium of exchange for everyday transactions, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kibera Slum is located in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, and its original residents were Nubian soldiers who were permitted to settle there after their service in the British Army in the First ...

Nairobi, Kenya • Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with sewage, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with sewage, ...

People gather around the debris of houses burned down during a fire at Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 17, 2026. A ...

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 ...

A hydroponic unit at Victor Edalia's farm in Kibera. The farmers converted a dumpsite into a farm for vegetables. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard] Is there anything good that can come out of Kibera? A lot.