In the vast, forested expanse of the Mount Elgon Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (TBR), nature and humanity are intertwined in a delicate balance. This balance is now facing mounting pressures from ...

Mount Elgon, located at the boundary of Kenya and Uganda about 120 km North of Lake Victoria, is one of the oldest volcanic mountains in East Africa. It hosts a unique ecosystem and possesses high ...

Mount Elgon, straddling the Uganda-Kenya border, is a dormant volcano with one of the largest calderas in the world ...

Tourists trek to reach the peak of Mountain Elgon in Eastern Uganda. There are several tourist attractions within the region that are underexploited. Net photos Private sector institutions, in ...

It is alleged that gazzettement in 1968 Mt. Elgon National park was 220sq. kilometers. On current tourist guide book it is said that Mt Elgon National park is 168 sq. kilometers. This can tell one how ...

The trouble really flared up in Mount Elgon in August 2006, with the establishment of the Saboat Land Defence Force, or SLDF – an armed militia. The SLDF started out by asking for a "fair" allocation ...

There is no hope that internally displaced residents of Mt Elgon will ever be resettled 44 years since the government began the exercise to give them land. Trouble flared up in Mount Elgon in August ...

Hardly do guests on the Western Kenya circuit remember to visit the Mt Elgon National Park whenever they are in Kitale or the environs of this beautiful park. The park sits quietly at the foot of Mt ...

Following weeks of rain and days of torrential downpour in part of Eastern Uganda, a major landslide on the slopes of Mt. Following weeks of rain and days of torrential downpour in part of Eastern ...

Myth. Residents on the slopes of Mt Elgon insist that their ancestors used ash to invoke the gods to save them from landslides. Ms Norah Nakamola, 63, stands still in her compound in Nabusasi village ...

Civilians in Kenya’s western Mt. Elgon district near the border with Uganda have been twice-victimized in a little known conflict between Kenyan security forces and a militia group known as the Sabaot ...

The rebel Sabaot Land Defence Force and the Kenyan military are responsible for horrific abuses, including killings, torture and rape of civilians, in a little-known armed conflict in the Mt. Elgon ...