Embakasi Embakasi is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately , southeast of the central business district. Embakasi is considered part of Nairobi's Eastlands area, lying to the south-east of Nairobi County. The Embakasi proper covers ...

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...

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central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

Embakasi Embakasi is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately , southeast of the central business district. Embakasi is considered part of Nairobi's Eastlands area, lying to the south-east of Nairobi County. The Embakasi proper covers ...

Mukuru kwa Njenga Mukuru Kwa Njenga is a slum in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi. Mukuru kwa Njenga is among other villages in Mukuru namely; Mukuru kwa Reuben, Mukuru kwa Njenga, Sinai, Paradise, Jamaica, Kingstone, Mariguini, Fuata Nyayo and Kayaba. The population ...

low-income Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little

income

to low

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such as Fedha and

Kware Kware is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kware on the A1 highway. It has an area of 554 km and a population of 133,899 at the 2006 census. It is led by a politician called Hon. Usman M ...

, and the middle class suburb of

Imara Daima Imara Daima is a middle class neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately south of the central business district of Nairobi. Located along the Nairobi expressway and Mombasa Road, the neighbourhood is well connected to transport ...

. Electorally, Pipeline is placed under

Embakasi South Constituency Embakasi South is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of seventeen constituencies in Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of ...

; the whole constituency is within the Embakasi Sub-county.

Overview

Pipeline Estate has over the years become synonymous with a concrete

slum A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inh ...

for its poor

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and uncontrolled tenements. Overcrowded high-rises set up side by side define the estate's skyline, narrow streets, poor

drainage Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area with excess of water. The internal drainage of most agricultural soils is good enough to prevent severe waterlogging (anaerobic conditio ...

systems and poor

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. The estate attracts

low-income Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little

income

earners because of its affordability. The neighbourhood has seldom set aside open spaces that can be used for

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, expansion of roads and development of social amenities. As space in Pipeline ran out, uncontrolled development spread out to the neighbouring poorer Kware Estate. The neighbourhood population is alarmingly high, accommodating approximately 100,000 residents without a single public primary school. As of 2019, Pipeline together with Kware have a population of 166,517, with 87,056 of them being male and 79,439 being female. The neighbourhood has a population density of 106,445/km² in a land area of 1.6km², the highest after

Huruma Huruma is a low-income residential estate located in the northeast of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It borders Kariobangi and Dandora to the east, Moi Air Base to the south, Mathare to the north to west and Eastleigh to the southwest. In April 20 ...

and Madiwa.

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{{Nairobi, state=collapsed Populated places in Nairobi Province Suburbs of Nairobi

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