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 ...

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers ...

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 tourist boats that normally ply Kenya's famed Lake Naivasha have had a different task in recent weeks: evacuating ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 21, 2010 (ENS) – Rhinos and other wildlife in Kenya’s world-famous Lake Nakuru National Park will be better protected with funds raised by cyclists this weekend during the ...

LAKE NAKURU, Kenya,(Reuters) - Lake Nakuru in Kenya is home to some of the world's most majestic wildlife: lions, rhinos, zebras and hundreds of bird species - including flamingos that famously blush ...

The pupils of Salabani primary school study under acacia trees after their classrooms were swamped by floods on Lake Baringo. TRF/Caleb Kemboi BARINGO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At Salabani ...

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 ...