Month: April 2013
Bata Safari Boots and the 680 Hotel
I took refuge from today’s downpour in the lobby of The 680 Hotel. Seems the 680 has been around forever, but, according to Trip Advisor, it’s only been 30 years. Last July, I interviewed Dedan Kimathi‘s widow, Mukami, in the lobby restaurant for a Newsweek article I was writing about the pending Mau Mau lawsuit […]
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Uganda’s Museveni flogs the International Criminal Court
Is the International Criminal Court (ICC) guilty of political cleansing? Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), must have gasped on hearing Uganda’s Museveni lash out at the ICC while the newly sworn in Uhuru Kenyatta and Zimbabwe‘s Robert Mugabe clapping and snickering in the background. In his speech, Museveni accused […]
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Rhino darting clip – Economics of Extinction
Film clip accompanying my Newsweek /DailyBeast feature, The Economics of Extinction, 01.28.2013 Watch a Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) veterinarian sharpshooter dart an endangered black rhino for translocation. Laikipia, Kenya. link to article – http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/28/the-economics-of-extinction-africa-s-elephants-and-rhinos-in-danger.html
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Video | Trip to Mogadishu 2.05.2012
https://www.youtube.com/user/margotkiser?feature=guide 1. – Feb 2012 Trip to Mogadishu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZfNDSPdE24 to Shabelle Media, Mogadishu 2. Kenya Wildlife Service Rhino Darting in Laikipia 3. Various Kenya Decides 2013 – presidential election
