In the first glimmers of the Kenyan morning light, Bilinda Straight wakes to a familiar scene: a home that another woman has built out of local wood, wild sisal and cow hides. Somewhere nearby, she ...

Residents in Kilepoi village in Samburu County received piped water for the first time in 2025, more than 60 years after Kenya's independence. Over 2000 people previously relied on unsafe water from ...

Though Kenya’s elephant population is stable and poaching is relatively under control, across Africa savannah elephants are increasingly under threat Saving Africa’s elephants: ‘Can you imagine them ...

The Samburu have kept cattle in this region for centuries. Teenage boys like Paris serve as the community's "morans," meaning warriors, charged with looking after the herds. During the dry season, ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Ngilai community in Samburu county embarks on vegetable farming to address malnutrition. The USAID Nawiri programme has ...

An elephant is between my tent and the Wi-Fi. I watch it wander from bush to bush. Pulling twigs off trees, munching on leaves. Looking around. What else do you expect when you’re staying at a place ...

Evgeny Lebedev meets the warriors to hear about a remarkable project implemented on their tribal land that has restored animal numbers previously hunted almost to annihilation (Johnny Shand Kydd) Sign ...

<i>The Science of Siblings</i> is a new series exploring the ways our siblings can influence us, from our money and our mental health all the way down to our very molecules. We'll be<i> sharing these ...