Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Gundo buys chips at a shop that accepts bitcoin payments at Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya ...

Housing and urban development experts have warned that Lagos currently has no fewer than 145 slums, with about 66 per cent of its residents living in informal settlements, raising concerns over a ...

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi's unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law into their own ...

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of ...

KIBERA, Kenya (AP) — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

KIBERA, Kenya — Dotting the roadside in what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum are typical stands selling vegetables. What isn't typical is their acceptance of bitcoin as a form of ...

People work at ”The Faktory”, a fashion design and clothing manufacturing company in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko JOHANNESBURG, March 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...