Nairobi Photos (kenya): A Beautiful East African City

@Ikeyman, don't worry, just leave them.

Both Nairaland and Skycrapercity are sites which I view daily for the last two years (before this thread was created).

On that site there is a Nigerian section which shows all the new developments and improvments which are coming and  to come out of Nigeria, I have never seen these posters there, unless they use different usernames ofcourse. I think Volina's user name is the same on that site, along with massai and a few others.

Yet they feel compelled to join a Nigerian oriented website and create a thread about Kenya, 

Have you seen any of them in any other thread on this very site? Excluding of course the  "ugly pictures of Lagos", or "why do West Africans hate Nigerians".

Dont mind them at all, just leave them to post their pics.

Pls post more!I think I know where Iam going to spend my summer holiday.The Pearl of Africa.

Just for the records there is no Zulu's in Kenya,Hakuna matata  mrewo;D

hmm

Kenyan Slum-dwellers Priced into Hunger bbc
Posted on 28 May 2009. Filed under: Food Security, Poverty |


Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN 
Women selling fish in a Nairobi market (file photo): Slum-dwellers have been hard hit by the food price crisis
NAIROBI, 27 May 2009 (IRIN) – Millions of people who live in Kenya’s sprawling slums are among those worst hit by the food price crisis, yet they receive far less humanitarian attention than other demographic groups, according to officials, who pointed in particular to the plight of malnourished children in such settlements.

“While there are also very serious food crises elsewhere in Kenya – for example, in the north – they at least get some attention from governments and donors, whereas the crisis in the cities is often completely forgotten or ignored,” Alun McDonald, the regional media and communications officer of Oxfam GB, told IRIN.

“In Kibera [Nairobi's largest slum] alone, there are over 5,000 children under five years old who are suffering from malnutrition – more than 1,000 of them suffering from severe cases,” McDonald said. “Severe child malnutrition should not be happening in a modern capital city.”

Food insecurity has been exacerbated by drought, rising food and non-food prices and poor harvests. “In the past 12 months… essential foods such as maize more than doubled in price… Oils and vegetables are also much more expensive now than they were a year ago,” he said.

The price of maize has risen by up to 130 percent in Nairobi and 85 percent in Mombasa over the past year. Cooking fuel prices have risen by 30-50 percent and the cost of water by 90-155 percent, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

“It’s not just food that is more expensive – people cannot afford as much water now, which means children use dirty water and get sick more easily… It is getting much more expensive just to survive,” he said.

School feeding

According to Gabrielle Menezes, WFP information officer, high food prices have affected the urban population considerably, “as these are people who depend on markets to buy food, and do not really grow their own”.

WFP is feeding 145,500 urban children under the School Feeding Programme, which covers 195 schools in the Nairobi slums and the coastal town of Mombasa. “In response to high food prices, WFP began feeding in the Mombasa slums at the beginning of this year,” Menezes said.

“School feeding becomes even more important at times of crisis, as people resort to drastic coping measures, pulling children out of school to beg or work,” she said.

She noted that subsistence farmers in the southeastern and coastal areas were also hard hit by the failure of the October-December 2008 short rains.

having hundreds of thousands of increasingly poor and hungry families could well lead to further instability on the streets of Nairobi -and potentially other cities
“They experienced almost total crop loss, and many families will need food assistance,” she said, adding that WFP was providing general food distributions to 2.5 million people in the country.

According to Sylvia Khamati, acting head of the health department at the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), the need for proper nutrition in Kenya is huge. “Generally, most children are malnourished, it does not matter in what setting they are,” she said.

In March, the Kenya Food Security Steering Group called for food price controls, provision of food aid and the creation of employment opportunities to stop more Kenyans going hungry.

Khamati said attention should be paid to special needs groups such as children younger than five and pregnant women. “When there is a food crisis there is more focus on supplementary and therapeutic feeding as the goal is to save life. But this is expensive compared with providing nutrition education on integration of readily available local foods for a healthy diet,” she said.

According to Oxfam’s McDonald, hundreds of thousands of people in Nairobi already live in serious poverty and are just surviving. “They simply can’t afford to pay any more for food,” he said.

“But the urban crisis is not just about poverty – it is also about governance,” he said. “Citizens need to have affordable access to basic services such as water and healthcare.

“Given the political tensions in Kenya at the moment, having hundreds of thousands of increasingly poor and hungry families could well lead to further instability on the streets of Nairobi – and potentially other cities

So its true what they say about nigerians,bunch of arrogant,proud and jealous clowns,who only see themselves as better than any body else,kibera is changing unlike in the delta,how many dead this week?



Your article above will not stop me or any other Kenyan from posting so swallow the lump and have some dignity.

How poor planning is spelling doom for Nairobi

Storeyed residential buildings that have been springing up unplanned in Nairobi. Photos/LIZ MUTHONI

By  JOHN NGIRACHUPosted Friday, June 5 2009 at 18:44
In Summary

Residents also blame failure to coordinate regulatory agencies and a casual attitude

Unplanned development in Nairobi, the apparent failure to coordinate the work of the various regulatory agencies and a casual attitude towards the trend is spelling doom for Kenya’s capital city, according to the residents’ organisation.

The Kenya Alliance of Residents Association has since last January been campaigning against unplanned development. According to the chief executive officer, Mr Stephen Mutoro, the city risks losing a lot if the authorities do not act quickly.

KARA says there are too many authorities that regulate construction, and too many people with vested interests in the matter, complicating the whole development process.

To build in Nairobi, one is required to liaise with the Lands ministry and the City Council’s directorate of planning in case the building is likely to interfere with the environment and go against the Ministry of Environment and the National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) requirements.

Nema’s independence

Lately, questions have been raised over Nema’s independence after it gave the go-ahead for the construction of several questionable buildings and appeared to be unable to halt the development of others where it had given stop orders.

Unplanned development, says KARA, could result in an unjustifiable increase in the value of land and interference with privacy as flats come up in areas set aside for only a limited number of buildings.

Pressure on current social amenities, such as water and sewerage systems, is already being felt in most parts of the city, and the perennial traffic jams are attributed to the council’s failure to expand the roads in line with the city’s growth.

According to Prof Peter Ngau, the chairman of the department of urban and regional planning at the University of Nairobi, the first thing to do would be to formulate a plan to guide the city’s development.

The development of Nairobi depends on a master plan drawn by a team of consultants in 1948. The plan included guidelines, broad land use zoning, neighbourhood principles and the expansion of the current roads as well as the creation of others.

It was, however, felt to be too rigid and had not adequately catered for socio-economic factors. But it was eventually used in the development of the industrial area, the road network and the residential areas.

In 1973, a Nairobi Urban Study Group report provided a strategy in both the short and the long terms in physical development, transportation and housing and the policy and institutional framework to guide the growth till 2000.

Nairobi hawkers take to the streets

Upperhill city,dedication to Ikeyman





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Ikeyman,same place ,same time tomorrow

nice pics, mwanamwiwa!! hey do u have some muthaiga area pics, ain't u?  btw forget those slum at kibera I believe that will be dissapear soon,,,, asante sana rafiki.

 :)thanks guys,Ioklen,i am organising some surban pics and muthaiga is incuded,you will be shocked!!!WaKenya Pamoja!
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More to come,Ikeyman,

Nice! Nairobi is very organized considering the region it's in, I would really love to visit one day. The food looks scrumptious, could you perhaps post some pictures of Kenyan cuisine also?

Thanks blackspade,some Kenyan food for you,enjoy,
chapati

Mchele(rice)

githeri

ugali



mandazi

and ofcourse nyama choma(roast meat)

nyama choma and ugali with vegetables(sukuma wiki)

biriani

Kenya Cricket






Cricket fans




Alas!