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Kenya

Kenya has one of the largest and most diversified economies in east Africa, with the potential to reduce poverty significantly among Kenyans and other east Africans. With this in mind DFID Kenya concentrates on improving basic needs e.g. health, education as well as catalysing private sector growth.

Could you live like a local in Africa's biggest slum?

Posted by: Lenny Henry, Posted on: 18 March 2011 - Categories: Development Debates, Kenya

As most people who have ever watched Comic Relief will know, I’ve been to Africa many times before. I’ve reported on the destruction wreaked by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, on drought, on famine, on kids forced to live on the streets …