Analysis - An old quarry eight kilometres east of Nairobi city centre was converted into the Dandora Municipal Dump Site in the 1970s. Although the city council declared the 30-acre unfenced site ...

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work.

Residents of Dandora will have to put up with the dumpsite for 10 more years as engineers start compacting the waste to create extra space.

The Dandora landfill smolders near Kenya ’s capital, Nairobi, and it is one of the biggest dumps on the entire African continent. Every day, some 2,500 tons of garbage are brought in.

In 2023, President William Ruto pledged to ensure all waste in the city will be converted to electricity for use by Kenyans. Ruto spoke during the groundbreaking ceremony for 6704 affordable ...

Item 1 of 6 Scavengers sort recyclable plastic materials at the Dandora dumping site on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya February 26, 2022. Picture taken February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya ...