But with the enormous port’s construction just a few kilometers away, residents of the small island of Lamu – a World Heritage site – residents fear their delicate ecosystem, their ...

The Lamu Port has been one of them. In 2012, then president Mwai Kibaki - at the inauguration ceremony for a transport corridor that stretches from the Lamu Port to South Sudan and Ethiopia ...

Construction has begun on a $23bn (£14.5bn) port project and oil refinery in south-eastern Kenya's coastal Lamu region near war-torn Somalia's border. An oil pipeline, railway and motorway will ...

Of late, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta launched Lamu Port, the country's newest mega infrastructure project. With its second deep-water port after Mombasa, Kenya is planning to become the go-to ...

President Kibaki , Prime Minister Raila Odinga (centre) and Transport minister Amos Kimunya (left) examine maps for the proposed Lamu port and standard gauge railway line to South Sudan during a ...

Traditional fishing waters in Lamu may have to be closed as the construction of the new port progresses ... "There is no known road map on equipping local laborers with vocational and higher ...

The delayed completion of a 200km stretch of the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo Road could be impeding Lamu Port from finding its footing as a regional transshipment hub. The 530km route is part of the Lamu ...

In March this year, Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki officially launched the new Lamu Port project, a massive infrastructure project that is expected to cost a whopping $20 billion. The red-carpet ...

The island of Lamu, off the northern coast of Kenya, is a town frozen in time. Frozen in time, this Kenyan island was once the most important trade centre in East Africa. Now its eclectic culture ...

The construction of Lamu Port in Kenya has been officially launched by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.