Clashing Tribes and Shrinking Grassland as Kenyan Airport Sparks Property Boom

May 14, 2019

ISIOLO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on a roadside boulder at the edge of Kenya’s Isiolo airport, six young men engage in a friendly argument over what speed an airplane reaches on takeoff.

As they debate the numbers, there is one thing they agree on: the new international airport has brought opportunities they never imagined in this once sleepy town in northern Kenya.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-landrights-conflict/clashing-tribes-and-shrinking-grassland-as-kenyan-airport-sparks-property-boom-idUSKCN1SK020

Photos by Ingrid Barrentine & Joe Nicholson, Alaska Airlines