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State bets on Lamu port despite worries

By Yara Bayoumy

The country’s ambitions to build a world-class port in its southern Lamu region would have a big payoff, but it will also inflict irrevocable damage on the area’s image as a tourist paradise and on the livelihoods of its fishermen.

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