Lokichogio

Lokichogio, often called Loki, is a town in Turkana County in northwest Kenya, also spelled Lokichoggio or Lokichokio. It lies on the A1 road about 30 kilometres from the border with South Sudan and is served by Lokichogio Airport. The town hosts United Nations offices that were part of Operation Lifeline Sudan, around 49 non-governmental organisations and a large orthopaedic hospital run by the ICRC. During the war of 1983 to 2005 in what is now South Sudan it was the main resupply and logistics point for the Sudan People's Liberation Army, with flights to units in the Nuba Mountains starting here. It is the outermost Kenyan town on the South Sudan border, though some Kenyans hold that Lodwar, about 200 kilometres south, is the last truly Kenyan town in the region.