However, due to their greater availability of services and economic opportunities, urban counties like Nairobi and Mombasa had the lowest poverty rates, with 16.5% and 27.0%, respectively.

The findings of the 2022 survey revealed a significant variation in overall poverty rates at the county level, ranging from a low of 16.5% in Nairobi City to a high of 82.7% in Turkana.

"Conflict remains the dominant driver of East Africa's food crisis, with about 38 million people across the IGAD region facing high levels of acute food insecurity," the institutions noted, adding ...

According to Mikaela Mwangura, Nairobi County G100 chair, one such way is through supporting entrepreneurship in communities with high poverty rates. G100 is an influential group of 100 women ...

In theory, Africa should be prospering. The continent’s urban population is expected to grow by 900 million by 2050, ...

Nairobi. The apartments are part of the Kibera Slum Upgrading Project, September 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard] Over the years, Africa has had countless poverty alleviation initiatives with ...

In 2008-09, ethnographic fieldwork documented the daily lives of four teenagers in New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Ankara. In 2021, we followed up with them for updates on their situation.

At a time of rising populism and increasing opposition worldwide to immigration from countries wracked by poverty and civil ...

The most important step in any solution is to increase the taxes the super-rich must pay, an idea that gained significant ...

Yet behind [its] beautiful façades, there were hidden ugly things – violence, greed, poverty, and ecological destruction. While there, we became interested in the visuals and language of utopia and ...