Reporting from Samburu, Kenya — Every day across sub-Saharan Africa, 13.5 million women spend hours searching for water and carrying it back to their families. The water they find is often ...

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 ...

The sandalwood tree, known as Losesiai in Samburu language, is of immense traditional value to the people of Kenya’s Samburu County. According to Lillian Letiwa, one of the women leading conservation ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has advised that at least 4.2 million people in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) urgently need humanitarian ...

At a time when nations are reclaiming stolen cultural artefacts, a collection of Samburu cultural objects has returned to its origins. Writer and researcher Rhodia Mann, an avid chronicler of Northern ...

The need for this research work was borne out of the recognition of inter-communal and inter-clan conflicts as major concerns among the pastoral communities within the northern counties of Kenya.