Last updated: 16 september, 2009 - 18:49 GMT

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An ambitious plan to improve living conditions for hundreds of thousands of slum dwellers has begun in Nairobi.

It involves a rolling programme of moving groups of residents into apartment blocks temporarily while their old homes are knocked down and the area is connected to services.

Eventually all the inhabitants of Kibera, said to be the largest slum in Africa, will be living in new homes.

The programme is being run by the Kenyan government with the help of the United Nations agency Habitat.

Focus on Africa's Anne Mawathe reports from Kibera.

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