For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some manyattas submerged by Lake turkana flooding which has left more than 10,000 homeless ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Manyattas submerged by Lake Turkana flooding left more than 10,000 people out of their ...

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 ...

The first discovery of tracks of early hominins in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region happened by chance in 1978. A team led by one of us (Behrensmeyer) and paleoecologist Léo Laporte was exploring ...

Kenya's Lake Turkana continues to expand despite four consecutive rainy seasons which have killed hundreds of thousands of animals, pushing millions to the brink of starvation. Reporter ...

Dated to between 1.5 and 1.6 mya, and discovered on the western side of Lake Turkana Kenya in the mid 1980s by Kamoya Kimeu, leader of the paleontological team dubbed the ‘Hominid Gang’.

After water, access to food is the second priority in Turkana and fishing has been a positive development for the people, ...

Next to the mission, there are two villages where a few thousand people live on a semi-permanent basis. Their houses are huts made with reeds or straw, or made with iron sheets, or a combination of ...