As the South Lokichar Field Development Plan enters the critical phase of parliamentary approval, the political environment ...

KDF and Ethiopian forces will each strengthen their deployments to the areas under an initially signed Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA).

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 ...

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 ...

Turkana Governor Jeremiah Lomorukai is calling for extensiveinvolvement of the county government and residents in oil development programmesin the region.Lomorukai wants stronger collaboration between ...

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 ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

Truck ferrying the first crude oil consignment from Lokichar, Turkana, arrives at the Changamwe KPRL storage facility in Mombasa, on June 7, 2018. [File, Standard] Concerns are emerging over whether ...

US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about genetic adaptations in people that have occurred because of environmental pressures. This effort focused on people ...

The Turkana people of Northwest Kenya have adapted to one of the driest places on Earth by relying predominantly on the milk, meat, and blood from their herds of camels and goats. With up to 80 ...

Eating a diet of almost exclusively animal products and experiencing relentless, chronic dehydration would lead to serious problems for many of us, but not so for the Turkana of northwest Kenya. The ...