For many years, the mention of Marsabit County conjured up images of a forsaken place full of hostile residents, banditry, cattle rustling and poor infrastructure and biodiversity. But, after years of ...
NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it ...
Classrooms buried by rugged sand dunes with blown off rooftops are a prominent feature in one of East Africa’s most hostile environments. With temperatures soaring beyond 40 degrees centigrade, Chalbi ...
About 560 kilometres from Nairobi, four white Toyota Land Cruisers veer off into a desert. The cars zip over sand dunes as if there are jet skis on Indian Ocean. In the distance, a rock looks so ...
Sunday, December 26, 2021, and the first rays of the sun were just warming the ground. The birds’ tweets in Kalacha were reaching a crescendo. As the world around us slumbered, I dragged myself out of ...
Although Marsabit is known for many deaths during cattle raids and in the frequent fights between rival communities, the worst menace of all remains ... deaths from cancer. At least one or two people ...
About 560 kilometres from Nairobi, four white Toyota Land Cruisers veer off into a desert. The cars zip over sand dunes as if there are jet skis on Indian Ocean. In the distance, a rock looks so ...