With no comprehensive formal transportation system, Nairobi relies on its matatus despite their flaws. Photo credit: shankar s via Flickr This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

In cities the world over, transit – the profoundly important circulatory system for urban life – is poorly supported, planned and regulated. This is especially true where the transit system has many ...

Painted with the faces of celebrities like Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur, and furnished with disco balls that lurch and twinkle as they weave through traffic, the thousands of matatus on the roads in ...

Nairobi is the second most congested city in Africa and the fourth in the world with several reports showing that the traffic congestion cost an estimated Sh100 billion annually in lost productivity.

An electoral guide map showing the country's 210 constituencies and the pattern of voting in the last elections has been launched. The Kenya Democracy Map released yesterday, also lists 47 registered ...

Giant technology firm Google has revealed that its maps product is one of the tools Nairobi motorists have been using to evade police crackdowns on those driving while drunk. Ever seeking to be a step ...

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads. Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the ...

If you are planning to travel to Nairobi or any other city in Kenya, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ...