Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated 341 kilometres (212 mi) by road northeast of Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty, from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island. It is the headquarters of Lamu County and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The town contains the Lamu Fort on the seafront, constructed under Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr, the sultan of Pate, and was completed after his death in the early 1820s. Lamu is also home to 23 mosques, including the Riyadha Mosque, built in 1900, and a donkey sanctuary.
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Officials will start testing operations of the new Lamu port at the end of next month ahead of the June 15 commissioning.
The first batch of equipment including low load trailers, extension cargo handlers and trailers to be used at the...
Kuna malazy waliokuwa wakisema kwamba Lamu port ni white elephant. Sasa sijui watajificha wapi maana equipments zimeshaanza kupelekwa Lamu port sasa hivi tunavyozungumza. Wameze wembe tu hamna namna.
NEARING COMPLETION
KPA begins moving equipment to Lamu port
State officials assess new port's...
A few years ago Kenya announced grand plans to construct Africa's largest infrastructure dubbed LAPSSETT which would see a modern port in Lamu, then poised to be the largest in Africa, served with a modern network of Rail and Roads to all her neighbors. A few months later Tanzania responded with...
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