With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

Fish from Lake Turkana has flooded markets on the shores of Lake Victoria, resulting in a huge drop in prices. There is fear the fishing community depending on Lake Victoria might be rendered jobless ...

An aerial view of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake. A recent study reveals that climate-driven fluctuations in lake levels can significantly influence fault activity in the ...

As Northern Kenya’s unabating drought continues, a growing wave of pastoralists are finding it challenging to keep their livestock alive and are switching to fishing in Lake Turkana, the world’s ...

Along the dry shores of northern Kenya, a long turquoise lake quietly records the tug of deep forces. Lake Turkana looks peaceful from the surface. Yet as its waters have risen and fallen with ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable regions for the study of hominin evolution in Africa. Since the 1960s, many large ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

When Simon Choko goes out fishing on Kenya’s lake Turkana, he brings a gun as well as a net. In the drought-stricken corner of northwestern Kenya, the native Turkana community to which Choko belongs ...

They have appealed to the Fisheries department and other relevant authorities to provide effective fishing gear to support them. The rising water levels in the lake that started last year has ...

The project is expected to take advantage of a unique wind source in north-west Kenya, near Lake Turkana. The LTWP project is an integrated dual-circuit power transmission line and the construction of ...