Tag Archives: Kibera

Kibera Celebrates Menstrual Hygiene Day

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Steve Banner

Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day), May 28, is an annual global event to raise awareness about the challenges women and girls face due to menstruation and to highlight solutions that address these challenges. The same challenges that affect most girls … Continue reading →

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Floods Cause Death in Gatwekera area of Kibera

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Steve Banner

At least three people were believed to have died after a flood swept away a section of Gatwekera village in Kibera due to the on-going heavy rains.  Here is the map of Kibera’s areas affected by the floods of April, … Continue reading →

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Waterborne Disease Scare In Kibera

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Steve Banner

A few days ago, after being heavily rained on. I developed fever and a condition that could have been caused by the weather changes, that is the on going heavy rains across the country, just like the average Kibera person … Continue reading →

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Courts Verdict: The events before and after courts decision to Uphold Presidential Election results

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Lee Ibrahim

Map Kibera Trust aim to effectively participate in the monitoring and coverage of the elections events as they unfolded finally came true a few days to the 4th  as all plans were now in place.  Finally the long awaited day … Continue reading →

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Miraa Chewing among the Youth.

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Lee Ibrahim

The culture or act of chewing miraa has not only been in Kibera but the entire country for quite sometime, this can be witnessed by the youth around the City. When you take a walk around the slums of Nairobi … Continue reading →

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Security lapse in Kibera worrying

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Douglas Namale

Laini Saba District Officer Mr. Hezbone Khayeti spent the better part of the day, today in a closed door meeting together with political and opinion leaders from different ethnic communities to discuss the brewing tension in Kibera. The tension is … Continue reading →

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Shared opinions on Facebook about elections

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Sande Wycliffe

On Monday 4th March, people of Kenya came out to vote, this was not just voting like any other but it was more of a historical election, being the first one under our hardly fought for “ the new constitution” … Continue reading →

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Elections after-math in Kibera 2

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Douglas Namale

Most shops remain shut, empty streets; lack of basic services and hiked prices on most food stuffs describes the situation in Kibera on Wednesday morning. Residents remain indoors glued to their television sets following Isaak Hassan’s appearance to announce a … Continue reading →

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Everything didn’t work as expected in Kibera

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Sande Wycliffe

To ensure the security at polling stations, the IECB staff at Holy Trinity worked extra hard this morning to organize the larger number of voters into their respective streams in order to ease the voting process. At Mashimoni primary polling … Continue reading →

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Fire disrupts voting at Nyayo High-rise, Langatta

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Douglas Namale

This morning fire disrupted voting exercise at Soweto Resource Centre and Undugu Society polling stations in Nyayo High-rise ward, Langatta constituency. The fire which started at around 9.30am has gutted about 30 houses at the border between Soweto east and … Continue reading →

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