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From roads to water, Nairobi slum upgrades bear fruit for residents

Food vendor Mary Akinyi, 39, a single mother of three, arranged her dried fish on a table at the side of a busy road in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, getting ready for peak hours in the early evening.

The road, built in 2014, has been good for business.

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