Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Every month, Alice Shikuku has to choose between buying enough food for her family and buying sanitary pads for her daughter. Her family moved to Korogocho, one of the poorest ...

Until recently, Molly struggled to imagine life beyond the end of each repetitive day: work in someone elses fields and earn enough to eat, rinse, repeat. "It was a vicious circle I could not escape," ...

Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has reported that Kenya is still grappling with high levels of poverty at 29.2 percent ...

Longorot Epuu’s 8-year-old niece, his namesake, was sick. Epuu quickly recognized the signs of kala-azar, the “black fever,” while visiting his brother’s family in a neighboring village in Kenya’s ...

Kenya’s inequality crisis is deepening, with new data showing that the country now has the 15th highest extreme poverty rate globally. The country's widening inequality has reached an alarming level, ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...

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For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment ...