EXCLUSIVE: Turkana women, including those that are pregnant, walk around 12 miles each day in an unimaginable quest to find water in one of the driest places on earth, in northwestern Kenya.

Turkana woman in northern Kenya. The Turkana—340,000 in all—are a fiercely traditional tribe living mostly in this North Carolina-sized region of Kenya, west of Lake Turkana, ...

Other women in senior positions are Jennifer Nawoi Long’or (County Lands Executive) and Trade, Gender and Youth Affairs’ Esther Lokiyo Lokwei. Turkana Women Rep Joyce Emanikor commended Nanok ...

Turkana Council of Elders Chairman Charles Lorogoi, popularly known as ‘Ekori Kapana’, however, maintained Turkana women should embrace the culture. “Going for these positions is not bad ...

Women and girls in Turkana County are impacted by numerous factors undermining gender equality in the region. Traditional perceptions render girls' education optional, with the most recent figures ...

NAIROBI, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Under the scorching sun in Kenya's Turkana located about 700 km from Nairobi, a group of women have slowly been leading a green revolution amid a biting drought that has ...

Turkana, Kenya – Around Lodwar, a town in the arid Turkana region of northwestern Kenya, ... Turkana women sit in a village near Baragoy. Turkana men herd cattle, sheep and goats.

The Turkana woman said she remained with three kids, with one, a daughter, yet to return home since leaving Turkana - An elderly woman has painfully opened up about the biggest family loss she is ...

We the Turkana people love you like Jesus, and you seemed to dislike us like the devil. Instead of giving us nominations, you give them to your daughter. Your young people are in trouble, and they ...

Turkana is a desperately poor region, among the poorest in Kenya, hammered by conflict and crippled by drought. It is home to the world’s largest desert lake, ... an indigenous woman told us.

Turkana Woman Representative Cecilia Ngitit has allocated Sh18 million from the National Government Affirmative Action Fund for bursary, sanitary towels,electric sewing machines and empowerment ...

Women and girls in Turkana County, northern Kenya, are being exploited in exchange for money to buy food, the International Rescue Committee said today. The IRC is seeing an increase in gender-based ...