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Kenya to construct its own pipeline from lokichar to lamu
Lokichar is a settlement in Kenya's Rift Valley Province.
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Map of Lokichar, Kenya
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 recent discovery of possible oil by Tullow Oil, talk of the Uganda/South Sudan oil pipeline to Lamu 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 is 2,000 and rising. There is a small non-commercial airport.
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Lokichar Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA