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 ...

Longorot Epuu’s 8-year-old niece, his namesake, was sick. Epuu quickly recognized the signs of kala-azar, the “black fever,” while visiting his brother’s family in a neighboring village in Kenya’s ...

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 ...

Through a collaboration between U.S. and Kenyan researchers and Turkana communities of northern Kenya, scientists have uncovered key genetic adaptations underlying survival in hot and dry environments ...

For decades, the vast natural wealth of Turkana County has coexisted with deep poverty and exclusion. Long viewed through the lens of hardship and remoteness, the region has often featured in national ...

LODWAR, Kenya (Reuters) - The Turkanas are one of the smaller of Kenya's 44 tribes, inhabiting the county of Turkana in the remote far north bordering South Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. Turkana is also ...