Lokichar is a small town in
Kenya's
Turkana County.
Lokichar is situated in the heart of the dusty and arid Turkana basin (desert) in the
Rift Valley, 550 km north-east of Nairobi.
Until 2010 it was a forgotten backwater of Turkana cattle-based pastoralists with a pre-2010 population under 1,000. The principal activity was basket weaving and other native crafts to cater for the sparse traffic.
The 2011 discovery of oil by Tullow Oil, talk of the Uganda/South Sudan oil pipeline to
Lamu
Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated by road northeast of Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty, from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island. ...
passing through, and the opening of the border to the new state of
South Sudan has started to transform its prospects. The 2012 population for the area was 2,000 and rising. There is a small non-commercial airport.
See also
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South Lokichar Basin The South Lokichar Basin is a Cenozoic sedimentary basin in Kenya. It is part of the East African Rift system, although it is no longer active. Since 2012 it has been the location of a series of oil discoveries by Tullow Oil and its partners.
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Populated places in Turkana County
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