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turkanaguardian
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Kenya's Dryland Counties: Battling Climate Change Effects
Climate change is a pressing issue that affects every corner of the globe, and Kenya's dryland counties, including Turkana, are no...


Jarso Mokku
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Please listen to the people on ending banditry menace, it matters
Photo: The Standard One Monday evening, I watched as a widow of a police officer in Turkana narrated the pain she went through after she...


Jarso Mokku
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Climate change destroys the livelihoods of Kenyan pastoralists
Amid acute and persistent drought, pastoralists in Northern Kenya—and other arid regions of Africa—are in dire straits and hinge hope on...


Jarso Mokku
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In delivering the pastoralists' agenda in Kenya, good leadership is key
Pastoralists in Turkana. Photo: Turkana Guardian Leadership matters. Good and right leadership creates engagement with passion. It leads...


Reverend Fletcher Harper
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COPs flop due to deliberate delay and obstruction
Protesters during the COP27. Photo: Africa News Since early 2020, the world’s richest countries have shown that they have the money and...


Prof Ekamais Akuja
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Pastoralism and livestock marketing, the keys to food security in ASALs
The arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) occupy more than 80% of the Kenyan land mass (464 000 km2). Most of these areas are un-urbanized and...


Ian Scoones for The Conversation
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COP26: Two worlds talked past each other – or never even met
Photo: Courtesy At the 2021 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, moving between the corporate slickness of the official “Blue Zone”...


Dr. Gilchrist Lokoel
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Which way Turkana?
In the recent past, we have been wooed by the top two presidential candidates. They have all promised the same thing: a better economic...


Dr. Gilchrist Lokoel
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Political rallies vs COVID 19
Photo: Courtesy There exists a presidential directive banning all political and social gatherings in Kenya as they are known to abet...


Tanguy Gahouma-Bekale for Africa Renewal
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COP26 on climate: Top priorities for Africa
A Turkana herder drives his livestock to River Turkwel to access water.Photo: Turkana Guardian At COP26, the African Group of Negotiators...


Dr Janerose Lokomol Ikwel
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Cancer awareness month (Cancer Monster)
October was a cancer awareness month. I wish to share my thoughts with you about this MONSTER. I call it MONSTER because recently we’ve...

Lucia Lebasha
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The controversies of Genetically Modified Organisms
The catch phrase ‘GMO’ tends to strike fear of the unknown into the hearts of many whenever they hear it: ‘modified? Modified how?’ There...

Samuel Kablit
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Too many schools: not Quality Education
Turkana County has always been classified among many others as one of the most illiterate county in Kenya standing at 94 per cent...


In Memory of Lemukol Ng'asike
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Redeeming Turkana? First School the Few Schooled Turkanas
In Memory of Arch. Lemukol Ng'asike For the past few weeks I have had an opportunity to move into the remote corners of Turkana County,...


In Memory of Lemukol Ng'asike
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Turkana cultural fete a perfect development foundation
In Memory of Arch. Lemukol Ng'asike It is a matter of fact that culture and people are one, and that for progress to get the right...


In Memory of Lemukol Ng'asike
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Pastoralists Land Rights Not Subject to Forced Sedentarisation
In Memory of Arch. Lemukol Ng'asike With dynamics like urbanization, mineral exploration, emphasis on legal documentation to prove...


In Memory of Lemukol Ng'asike
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Inside Turkana politics: where poverty oils elite’s greed
In Memory of Arch. Lemukol Ng'asike Kenya's only oil county is under siege. Don’t go far. Elite Ping-Pong is the culprit-in-chief. The...


Dr. Teria Ng'asike
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We are getting it wrong; childhood education isn’t about buildings
(2015) Devolving Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) to the county level of government is a fair constitutional argument and...


Prof Ekamais Akuja
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Water top priority in Turkana County
By Prof Ekamais Akuja Having come into being after the March 4, 2013 elections, the County Government of Turkana was received will lots...


Augustine Ekitela
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Social disfranchise, insecurity eating away state stability
By Augustine Ekitela (2015) State stability is increasingly becoming a concern. Some of the elements that make up a state, namely a...
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