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 ...

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 ...

The Globe's Africa correspondent Geoffrey York has been covering the terrorist attack at Nairobi's Westgate mall the past few days. With the standoff now over, the story will turn both to the tragic ...