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Great North Road that changed fortunes of dry northern Kenya

Participants of the camel caravan cross the Marsabit-Isiolo Highway. [Murimi Mwangi, Standard]

Born and raised in an area cut off from the rest of the country due to lack of critical infrastructure, Dalle Abraham, a resident of Marsabit, gives a clear picture of the disparity of a life before and after construction of the Isiolo-Moyale highway.

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