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Yaya is a shopping centre located in Hurlingham in Nairobi, Kenya. The establishment has been an asset for the Nicholas Biwott business empire until 2023 when it was announced that the Kantaria family had acquired it at undisclosed amount.

Overview
The mall is located approximately 3.4 km from Nairobi's city centre, along Agwings Kodhek Road in Hurlingham. It was opened to the public in 1992, making it one of the first malls in Kenya. The mall is part of a mixed-use establishment that also provides housing in the Yaya Towers; in which the west wing tower as remained incomplete due to a suspected dispute with the contractor. Yaya Centre provides an array of services from a retail supermarket chain; fast food restaurants; fashion and accessories shops; electronics and technology shops; banking and services; a movie theatre; outdoor recreation centre.

The shopping complex has for years been associated with the late former cabinet minister Nicholas Biwott's business empire since. In July 2023, saw a consortium of investors, notably Kantaria family, acquire the shopping centre together with Yaya Towers and Hotel for an undisclosed amount. The private transaction had reportedly been executed in 2020.

Locations and wards
Marurui is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately 10 km northeast of the central business district of Nairobi.

Overview
The neighbourhood is zoned as a low-density residential suburb with single-family homes. Marurui hosts the high-income, middle-income to some low-income residents. The neighbourhood contains the slum of Gathara (know as Jua Kali by its residents).

The neighbourhood is bordered by Garden Estate, Thome, Roysambu, Kasarani and Mirema.

Roysambu Constituency and Roysambu ward, both electoral divisions, cover the neighbourhood. The constituency encompasses other estates and neighbourhoods such as: Garden Estate, Thome, Ridgeways, Kiwanja, Njathaini, Ngomongo, Kongo Soweto, parts of Kahawa and Githurai, Mirema, Kamiti, and Zimmerman. Both electoral divisions are within the Kasarani Sub-county

Location
Mutuini is located approximately 13 km west of Nairobi's central business district.

Overview
Mukuru slums are predominantly a low-income informal settlement. It approximately consists of approximately thirty villages: Kwa Njenga, Kwa Ruben, Sinai, Paradise, Jamaica, Kingstone, Mariguini, Fuata Nyayo and Kayaba. The area sits south of the Viwandani and Industrial Area. The area earliest inhabitants were labourers from the nearby Industrial Area factories who made makeshifts mainly made by corrugated iron shacks. Some of the area that Mukuru slums sits on was initially a quarry that was exploited and was never rehabilitated.

Mukuru slums as any other slum in the world has been faced by challenges including crime, drug abuse, prostitution. In the slums, whole families survive, in tiny one-roomed corrugated iron shacks. Very few homes have access to electricity and up to twenty families might share a communal water tap and latrine.

The area is considered unsafe due to the air pollution caused by incineration of varied waste, as well as the stench from the unauthorised landfills in the slums. Fires are also common and containing them has always been a subject of debate; mainly because the the makeshifts are built close to one another and their narrow or no streets between them.

The slums have a high prevalence of respiratory diseases, Malaria, HIV AIDS and waterborne diseases. The was earmarked as to be more at risk in the spread of the COVID-19.

Crime are also common with break-ins and muggings, partially related to the unemployed youth in the slums. en-US}}

In 2017, among other slum areas in Nairobi, Mukuru was declared a Special Planning Area. Slum upgrading, initiated by the government, is an effort to provide better housing to the slum residents. Known as the Mukuru Affordable Housing, will be actualised on a 55-acre land with 15,000 housing units. Simplified sewer system is set to tackle the decades-long problem of open sewers.

Mwiki wards
Mwiki produces two electoral wards with the same name in the counties of Kiambu and Nairobi City: Mwiki Ward in Kiambu is one of the wards in Ruiru Constituency, while Mwiki Ward in Nairobi is one of the five electoral wards within Kasarani Constituency.

Njiru Sub-county
The sub-county borrows it's name from the neighbourhood. It is the second largest sub-county after Lang'ata with an area of 129.9 km2. It borders the Embakasi and Kasarani sub-counties. It covers the eastern to the farthest east area in Nairobi: from Kariobangi South, Dandora, Ruai, Saika, Njiru, parts of Kayole, to Kamulu. The sub-county has a population of 626,482, the highest after Embakasi and Kasarani sub-counties; with a population density of 4,821 km2.

The Sub-county is headed by the sub-county administrator, appointed by a County Public Service Board.

Points of interest

 * 1) ABC place, a shopping mall in Muthangari.
 * 2) St. Mary's School, Nairobi, a private Roman Catholic primary and secondary day school for boys, located off James Gichuru Road in Muthangari.