That was at least what Norway's development agency believed in the 1980s, when it built a fish-processing factory now abandoned and decaying on the shores of Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya.

Lake Turkana, the northernmost of Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes and fed mainly by an Ethiopian source, is like so much else here a victim of a drought that is ravaging East Africa. Ebenyou Lokitare ...

Commercial fishing in Lake Turkana has taken a beating due to siltation and interference with breeding zones. Traders are staring at a bleak future after quantities of fish went down. Kenya Marine ...

Kenya's Lake Turkana is expanding rapidly despite four failed rainy seasons, devastating the livelihoods of pastoralists hit by the effects of man-made climate change, reports BBC Newsnight's Joe ...