The disease kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, is caused by female sandfly bites and predominantly impacts ...

East Africa’s Great Rift Valley will soon become a hub for emissions-free wind energy as the continent’s largest wind farm rises from the arid, rocky landscape of northwest Kenya. East Africa’s Great ...

Communities living by Lake Turkana in Kenya face fluctuating water levels and dwindling fish stocks. An UN project aims to improve water – and food – security. Life near the edge of Lake Turkana is a ...

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 ...

Professor Amelia Villaseñor and her team uncovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya, showcasing long-term cultural ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, has approved an investment guaranty of ...

It's hard believe now, but we weren't always the only hominins walking around on Earth, and in the past, multiple hominins lived at the same time.

Fishermen on the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana, the world's biggest desert lake, have no doubt about what is to blame for their dwindling fish stocks: a giant hydroelectric dam built by Ethiopia on ...

LAKE TURKANA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's Lake Turkana Wind Power project aims to start supplying some electricity as early as September 2016, once a transmission line is built linking the remote ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a hot spring morning, Galte Nyemeto stood by the shore of Lake Turkana scanning for crocodiles. The water was shallow, ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Traders weigh fish at Lake Turkana. Fishing in the lake has resumed after the local county government lifted a six ...