Lake Turkana, the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake.

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Lake Turkana (tər-kăn'ə, tʊr-kä'nə), formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia.[1] It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. By volume it is the world's fourth largest salt lake after the Caspian Sea, Lake Issyk-Kul and the (shrinking) Aral Sea, and among all lakes it ranks twentieth.

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Obama's Kenyan relatives elated, holiday declared - 2008/11/5

KOGELO, Kenya – Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent sang, danced in the streets and wrapped themselves in U.S. flags Wednesday to cheer in America's first black president. Kenya will party for two days, after the president declared a national holiday...

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