Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
Construction for the first three of twenty-one berths of the Lamu Port is slated to begin in November. This may not seem like ground-breaking news, but for a project that’s been in the pipeline since the 1970’s, it’d be one small step for Kenya, one giant leap for Africa. Yesterday I attended the portion of […]
My article on Somaliland’s prison for pirates in Hargeisa (pictured below) has been published online by Chonjo Magazine. Check it out here and let me know what you think.
Ali Babitu KOHOLO, 25, being led to Lamu court at 9:30 yesterday. He was arraigned for his role in the Tebbutt attack on charges of ROBBERY W VIOLENCE. He is thought to have guided the gunman to Kiwayu Safari village and to TEBBUTT’S beach cottage.
I arrived in Seychelles (to attend a global counter-piracy conference) without my yellow-colored yellow fever card. I haven’t been asked for that in fifteen years. Authorities at the airport rounded up those besides me who also didn’t have theirs and made us all stand to the side like delinquent school children. Eventually, we were given […]
