Traders weigh fish at Lake Turkana. Fishing in the lake has resumed after the local county government lifted a six-month ban. [File, Standard] Stakeholders and county officials from Turkana and ...

Commercial fishing activities in Lake Turkana face a blink future due to dwindling stocks caused by heavy siltation and intrusion of fish breeding zones. The scramble for fish share is driving Beach ...

Loiyangalani is a small town located on the south-eastern coast of Lake Turkana. The name means “a place of many trees” in the native Samburu tongue and is home to the El Molo, an almost extinct ...

Lake Turkana, one of the largest desert lakes in the world, is located in Africa’s Rift Valley in northern Kenya. The Omo River, the lake’s largest tributary, provides more than 80 percent of its ...

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 people live ...

On 31 January 2012, a report was submitted by the State Party of Kenya in response to Decision 35 COM 7B.3. In the report, the State Party expresses its concern about the potential impacts of the Gibe ...

There has always been a very fine margin between life and death in the dry lands of Kenya’s northern Turkana County. But while Turkana has always been poor, underdeveloped and neglected, the twin ...

Vestas has finally disposed of its stake in the Lake Turkana wind farm in Kenya – seven years later than planned and not to web giant Google as originally intended. The Danish wind giant today (Monday ...

They have appealed to the Fisheries department and other relevant authorities to provide effective fishing gear to support them. The rising water levels in the lake that started last year has ...