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Kenya's Lake Turkana put on World Heritage danger list

An aerial image shows a part of Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, in northern Kenya on June 28, 2018. The lake is the most saline lake in East Africa. AFP PHOTO | YASUYOSHI CHIBA

A Unesco panel on Thursday added Lake Turkana, a conservation hotspot in Kenya and a candidate site for the birthplace of mankind, to the list of endangered World Heritage Sites.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's World Heritage Committee expressed concern about the disruptive effect of Ethiopia's Gibe III dam "on the flow and ecosystem" of Lake Turkana downstream.

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