A sleepy African beach town offers calm to European expats and Arab locals. Sept. 23, 2008— -- Just south of the equator, tucked along Kenya's lush, tropical coast, a tiny island called Lamu has ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Guests can still watch dhows, brought to East Africa by Persian sailors in the 14th century, from Shela's shores at the Peponi Hotel.

A new transport corridor through northern Kenya would make many happy: South Sudan wants access to the Indian Ocean and the Nairobi government wants to develop large infrastructure projects. But there ...

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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 affair ...

March 2004: Joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS monitoring mission; February 2005: World Heritage Centre Advisory mission on water and sanitation assessments; May 2010 and February 2015: Joint World ...

The Old Town of Lamu is located on an island by the same name within the Lamu Archipelago on the northern Kenyan Coast. The Old Town occupies approximately 16 hectares and consists of a buffer zone of ...