Lake Baringo, buzzing with birds and aquatic life in the volcanic region of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, had long been an oasis. KAMPI ya SAMAKI, Kenya (AP) — Winnie Keben had felt blessed to be raising ...

The East African Rift Valley sits between the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Within it lie a series of freshwater and alkaline lakes organised like a string of pearls. The Kenyan lakes in ...

Peering into the lake, the village elder struggled to pinpoint where beneath the hyacinth and mesquite weeds lay the farm he lived in his entire life until the water rose like never before and ...

The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has identified regions that will experience heavy rainfall as November approaches.

Kenya Met in its weekly advisory published on Tuesday, October 21, said that heavy rains were expected in t he Central ...

Beginning in 2019, devastating floods on the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria have inundated homes, displaced families and left some orphaned children in charge of caring for their siblings and running ...

Rising water levels in the lakes along the Great Rift Valley have pushed thousands in Kenya from their homes, endangering people’s livelihoods and wildlife in the region. The flooding comes after ...

Kenya will next month host a key private sector business forum for the Great Lakes region. This will be ahead of the Great Lakes Investment and Trade Conference (GLITC) to be held in Kigali, Rwanda in ...

KAMPI ya SAMAKI, Kenya (AP) — Winnie Keben had felt blessed to be raising her children in her husband’s childhood home in the community of Kampi ya Samaki — just over a quarter mile (500 meters) from ...

AFP is republishing this story which has been selected by the agency's chief editors as one of the best of the week. Pictures by Tony Karumba. Video by Celine Clery Peering into the lake, the village ...