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Kenya’s Lake Turkana is the largest desert lake in the world. Anthropologists consider it the cradle of civilization, where some of the earliest hominid fossils were found. Roughly 300,000 ...
Turkana North MP Ekwom Nabuin has confirmed to TUKO.co.ke that at least 30 fishermen were killed in Lake Turkana during a clash with the suspected Ethiopian militia Nabuin lamented the loss of ...
Kenya's Lake Turkana is expanding rapidly despite four failed rainy seasons, devastating the livelihoods of pastoralists hit by the effects of man-made climate change, reports BBC Newsnight's Joe ...
WEST TURKANA, KENYA—By late morning along Kaito beach on the western banks of Lake Turkana, the heat beating down from the sun is already deadly hot. A cluster of villagers, ...
The moment when Lake Turkana becomes visible is an unforgettable one. It comes after you pass the wind farm, and at the tail end of a series of spectacular hairpin curves, weaving through the red ...
The pressure is now on for them to do so.At Kenya's Lake Turkana wind park, towering turbines line dirt roads as far as the ...
Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya loses hundreds of tons of immature tilapia fish monthly through smuggling. Harvesting the fish threatens the existence of the entire species and the unique ecology of ...
The "Sustainably Unlocking the Economic Potential of Lake Turkana" project is a joint initiative by the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNESCO, funded by the Dutch Government, aimed at promoting ...
35 COM 7B.3 Lake Turkana National Parks (Kenya) (N 801bis) The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC-11/35.COM/7B.Add,. 2. Expresses its utmost concern about the proposed ...
On the shores of Lake Turkana in east Africa, about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, pastoralists buried their dead in communal cemeteries that were marked by stone circles and pillars.
Kenya's Lake Turkana is expanding rapidly despite four failed rainy seasons, devastating the livelihoods of pastoralists hit by the effects of man-made climate change, reports BBC Newsnight's Joe ...