Dry earth with footprints near the shores of Lake Turkana. As the world urbanizes and industrializes, and as effects of climate change intensify, environmental crises will increasingly devastate the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent Sunday afternoon in Lokichar, a small town in Kenya’s northern Turkana region, the expansive grounds of the Black Gold Hotel are deserted, aside from a couple of housekeepers seeking shade ...

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 ...

The barren semi-desert Turkana region is home to about a million people. For a large part of the mainly nomadic pastoralist inhabitants of the area today, surviving in what is easily the harshest ...

The following is a guest blog from Dr. Allan Mayi who is a Senior Technical Advisor (ART) with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and coordinates the EGPAF – Tunaweza Project based ...

The Turkana County government has banned processing of fish in Kalokol town and adjacent centers on the shores of Lake Turkana. County Director of Trade Clement Nadio said the move is intended to ...