David Ekwee, a nomadic Turkana teacher, celebrates his graduation from Mount Kenya University, embodying resilience in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkana, Kenya – In the relentless heat of Kainama in Turkana county, Veronica Akalapatan and her neighbours walk several ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private investment in clean energy projects is growing: in sub-Saharan Africa, it’s approaching US$40 billion a year. These ...

A UNESCO panel on Thursday added Lake Turkana, a conservation hotspot in Kenya and a candidate site for the birthplace of mankind, to the list of endangered World Heritage Sites. The UN Educational, ...

Cornell researchers have contributed to a multi-institutional study of how the nomadic Turkana people of northern Kenya—who have lived for thousands of years in extreme desert conditions—evolved to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkana people carry water near Lodwar, in Turkana County, Kenya February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner By Duncan Miriri LODWAR, ...

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 ...

Kenyan man who has been homeless on Nashville streets in the US for seven years appealed for help to return home and reunite ...

(Reuters) - On a hot day in January, tribesmen armed with Kalashnikov and G3 assault rifles bring their cattle to water in the dry Turkana region of northern Kenya. The men herd cattle, sheep and ...