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The Turkana Rift has produced more than 1,200 hominin fossils from the past 4 million years, accounting for about one third of all such finds in Africa.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

To reach this conclusion, Rowan and colleagues analyzed a rare set of high quality seismic data collected with industry partners and in collaboration with the Turkana Basin Institute, founded by the late paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

Although rains have recently started falling in several parts of the country and even caused flash floods in some areas, officials caution that relief will not come immediately to Turkana.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

In Turkana county, the effects of the long drought are visible almost everywhere.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Later on, when Kakuma was well established, the Turkana gathered firewood in the forests to trade with us for corn or clothes.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau