November 27, 2020
August 7, 2020
Remembering the August 7th 1998 Al-Qaeda bomb blast in Nairobi
Dr. Silverstein remarked that he hadn’t heard a sound like that since the Norfolk hotel was bombed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980.
February 10, 2017
Big Game: U.S. Soldiers’ Secret Hunt for Jihadists in a Kenyan Forest
“The Americans are very complicated, aren't they? On the one hand they are helping us by building roads, dispensaries, schools, but they also seem to want to kill us.”
August 6, 2015
Obama Lands to Controversy in Kenya – The Daily Beast
“We fear Obama is coming to teach our children to be gay,” the owner of a beauty salon in a Christian town on the coast told me. In reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month to recognize a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, one anti-gay-rights fringe group reportedly plans to protest in Nairobi—and, for reasons as yet unclear, to do so in the nude.
August 1, 2015
Sad About Cecil? These African Animals Are Slaughtered By The Thousands – The Daily Beast
South Sudan’s civil war has been a disaster for humans and animals alike. Soldiers on both sides have turned the slaughter of giraffes and other animals into an industry.
April 6, 2014
Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers | The Daily Beast
Religious leaders say Kenyan security forces are targeting them unfairly for persecution if not indeed for summary execution, but the police argue they have clear intelligence linking many of the local preachers to Somali terrorists.
September 7, 2013
‘A Long Walk Home, Judith Tebbutt’s memoir as pirate hostage in Somalia – Review
She asked her captors where they were taking her, and wondered whether they were headed toward Mombasa, farther down the Kenyan coast. But the man running the engine—the Navigator, who had offered her a pair of trousers for warmth—said, "Somalia."
March 26, 2013
Apocalypse Mogadishu – Ancient Rome meets ‘Mad Max gone wrong’
Life in Mogadishu looks safe and peaceful - until all of a sudden it's not.
February 18, 2013