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Microfinance group helps Kenyans build a new life

Jim Simon | Kenya | September 14, 2009

On the second night in her new house here, Jane Ngoiri told one of her children to get something out of the kitchen. Then she started laughing. "I told them, 'It is us talking about a ...
Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephanie Hanson | Kenya | August 06, 2009

Introduction Africa is widely considered among the world's most corrupt places, a factor seen as contributing to the stunted development and impoverishment of many African states. Of the ...
The Kenya Hillary Clinton Should See

Kitty Eisele | Kenya | August 05, 2009

One-third of the Kenyans in this capital of east Africa live in the hivelike alleys of Kibera, an unofficial settlement of mud huts and raw sewage. A million Nairobi citizens reside here, ...
Reporter’s Journal part V: Snapshots of Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | August 04, 2009

The World’s Andrea Crossan recently met up with Kenyan artist Solomon Muyundo, also known as Solo 7. Muyundo is famous in his native Kibera, a huge slum in Nairobi. He’s a graffiti ...
Disease Detectives in Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | July 26, 2009

The World Health Organization reported that the H1N1 swine flu virus has now sickened just shy of 60,000 people. That’s the number of confirmed cases worldwide. Of those, just five are ...

A Disease of the Poor

by Stephanie Hanson | August 07, 2009

By 10 am, the women are lined up at Siaya District Hospital, row after row, each one with a sick child nestled in her arms and a look of resolve on her face. Some of them have walked for ...
Sarah Obama and more…

by Monica Richardson | June 04, 2009

I'm back on... My apologies to those of you who have been logging on only to find that I have not logged on. Internet service has been up and down here. Around the area, you find men ...
An Obama family reunion in the works?

by Miriam Pepper | June 03, 2009

Miriam Pepper is in Kenya on a two-week fellowship with the International Reporting Project of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She posts today from the family ...
Kenya Today

by Miriam Pepper | June 01, 2009

NAIROBI: The world's largest slum is here, Kibera, home to 1.2 million mostly young Kenyans, about one third of Nairobi's population. Today was a national holiday, marking the beginning ...
I’ve landed…

by Monica Richardson | May 31, 2009

Down to business The team of editors with the International Reporting Project leave from D.C. Dulles Airport Saturday and arrive in London about 7 a.m. Sunday, we then head to Kenya. The ...