Escape to paradise on your next vacation to the tropical island oasis of Lamu on Kenya's coast. Discover a hippie retreat preserved in time, infused with Swahili, Omani and British culture.

Lamu was a port-of-call en route, a town where ships waited out seasonal storms, taking on board the ivory, horn, tortoise shells, Oriental silks and spices that flowed in and out.

A Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) vehicle has been involved in a fatal explosion involving an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The IED explosion which happened on Tuesday, July 15, at the Badaah area on ...

Lamu town itself dates from the first provenance of itinerant Sufi preachers, who 700-odd years ago settled Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. The intervening centuries blended the Bantu and Arabian ...

Lamu, Kenya — Few places in the world exude a sense of timelessness as Lamu, an island off of Kenya’s northern coast home to the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa.

The few antique pieces are equally prepossessing—witness the four-poster Lamu beds, perfect for napping, on the guest room verandas and the Javanese sideboard on the dining veranda.

A Chinese firm has signed a $478.9 million deal to construct three berths at Kenyan Indian Ocean port of Lamu. The project is part of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport, or LAPSSET ...

Part of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor—which aims to connect landlocked countries such as South Sudan and Ethiopia—the $591-million project was completed in seven years ...