Business booms in Isiolo on the promise of Lapsset

The new road leading to the Isiolo International Airport. The Government has connected more than 6,000 homes in the area to the grid since 2013, as well as 140 primary schools, according to a report by the Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU). (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Halima Hassan has not known the kind of life where the simple flick of a switch floods a room with light.

She is from Kambi Garba in Isiolo County, where you find a melting pot of communities. In this area, livestock rearing, which features drought-defying camel, is a lifeline.