Joseph Kwemoi, a resident in Mt Elgon showing a rock that has features of traditional rain gauge at Chemweisus, Mt. elgon in Bungoma County’ [Benjamin Sakwa/Standard] For many years, residents of ...

Mount Elgon's red earth slopes are home to hundreds of thousands of people who eke out a living growing coffee and vegetables on small plots cleared from the forest. As climate change has made annual ...

By Benjamin Jumbe According to monitoring with tracking collars by the Mount Elgon Foundation (MEF), last year at least 60 ...

Bungoma County Commissioner Maalim Muhammed (right) at Chepyuk Grounds in Mt. Elgon on during a security meeting. PHOTO: CHRISPEN SECHERE BUNGOMA: The mention of land on the slopes of Mt Elgon evokes ...

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) last month designated the Mount Elgon Transboundary Biosphere Reserve shared by Uganda and Kenya, and the ...

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 ...