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UN: Growth Of Slums Boosting Natural Disaster Risk
The rampant growth of urban slums around the world and weather extremes linked to climate change have sharply increased the risks from "megadisasters" such as devastating floods and cyclones, a...
U.S. Abortion Debate Reaches Into African Slums
Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America's battle over...
The Rise Of Barack Obama
Four years ago, Sen. Barack Obama was little known outside Illinois. Now, he has been elected President of the United States.
Leaders Agree On Power-Sharing Deal In Kenya
...three days this week, scuffles broke out in Kenya's largest slum, Kibera, between the police and people protesting the Cabinet delay. There were no...
Violence Erupts In Kenya
Suspicion about the results of a December election in Kenya has sent the African nation reeling with ethnic fighting. Hundreds of people have died and thousands have been displaced.
Kenya Opposition Vows More Pressure
...were set ablaze. Elsewhere, police opened fire on protesters in Nairobi's Kibera slum, killing six people and wounding at least 10. A blood-smeared...
Kenya Election Violence Leaves 300 Dead
...held. Arms reports that one of the biggest hotspots was outside the Kibera slum, where a massive group of young men played a cat and...
Kenya Teeters On Brink Of Civil War
The death toll from more than five days of post-election violence in Kenya rose above 300, rights groups said Wednesday as slums burned and thousands were left homeless. The violence...
Kenya Election Violence Death Toll Reaches 135
...serious killings," 24-year-old James Onyango, who lives in Nairobi's Kibera slum, told The Associated Press as homes and shops around him burned...
Kenya Silences Media Amid Election Violence
...public safety and tranquility" as black smoke rose above Nairobi's sprawling Kibera shantytown, where thousands of people have been on the streets for the...