Laikipia County has 263,012 registered voters spread across its three constituencies, according to data from the Independent ...

By Ashoka Mukpo KIMANA, Kenya — Lush, fertile and green, the Laikipia highlands of Kenya are renowned for their beauty and abundant grasses that feed its wildlife and livestock. They’re also ...

“Laikipia has no faceless hotels,” she says as we eat fresh beet soup and organic salads beside the pool. “It’s private and real, so different from the Serengeti or the Mara.” ...

Laikipia is also home to people, including Maasai herders, who often come into conflict with lions that have learned to prey on easy-to-catch cows. The end result, too often, ...

A hungry elephant roams the grasslands of Laikipia County in Kenya until he spots a sweet, yet problematic, snack: the fruit of an invasive cactus. The endangered mammal stops and eats, but also ...

‘The Battle for Laikipia’ Review: How the Climate Crisis Is Reawakening Tensions in a Kenya Community Reviewed online, April 29, 2024. Also in Hot Docs, CPH: DOX and Sundance.

The Battle for Laikipia follows two communities in Kenya grappling with devastating climate change and their unresolved colonial history. We filmed during a time of extreme hardship, when millions ...

MetFilm Sales has secured international rights to “The Battle for Laikipia,” Daphne Matziaraki and Peter Murimi’s multi-layered portrait of the conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and ...

Earlier this year, Matthew Lempurkel, the MP for Laikipia North, told his supporters he was waging a war "against the whites," according to The Times. "In my constituency there are a million ...

Watch the trailer for 'The Battle for Laikipia,' an award-winning documentary where conflict over grasslands erupts into violence on a Kenyan plateau.

Communities in Laikipia, northern Kenya are pastoralists but for more than a decade now, an invasive species of cactus plant has remained a thorn in their flesh. The plant is causing deaths to ...