Random images from travels and subjects I wrote about last year.
Road to MpekatoniJoy’s camp (named after Joy Adamson, wildlife behavioralist) Shaba National Game Reserve
Mpekatoni
A young woman was arrested and detained in appalling conditions at a sports stadium near Eastliegh, a Somali dominated suburb of Nairobi. #Kasarani
Favorite hat on safariIndependence Day, Istanbul, Turkey
Photo on #ISIS related FB pageThe Nearest Exit is Behind You
Found him hanging in the women’s washroom at Frontline Club.River walkCasablanca, Morocco (looks like LA, no?)
Flip sides of same coin – police reservist Athmed Bakshwein, (left) murdered in Malindi last January. Confessed Al Shabaab recruiter Abu Shariff Athmed alias “Makaburi” gunned down by a death squad on April 1st. RIPArabian desert14th century villa converted into guesthouse-Nord-de-Pinus (pronounced phonetically)
Doha beautiful from this angleLamu, photo MK
Mombasa Republican Council Secretary General, Randu Nzai
US Ambassador, Robert Godec, Foreign Correspondence Association of East Africa evening Gigiri, NairobiSunrise at home
T-shirt for sale in a Dubai mall
Tangiers
Somewhere below is Berbera, Somaliland
Another mall, Doha (photo Margot Kiser)Central Park, New York City, USA
Genie slippers in the souks, some better made than others.Syrian waiter, Istanbul, TurkeyOrma garage mechanic, Mpekatoni
Dhow race, Shela village, LamuHope the cow who parallel parked beside motorbikes almost every day for years, Malindi RIP
Proposed plans for the Lamu PortEid Lamu town
Cafe in Soho NYCDohaArabian desertA Christian wedding at a mosque, IstanbulMangrove forests
Al Jazeera English reporter Peter Greste during Westgate Mall attack. Peter has spent the last year in a Cairo jail for doing his job. “FreeAJStaff
Tangiers
Marrakech
Warlord’s sandals
Somali-US relationsSomalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud with Secretary of State John Kerry
psychedelic Grevy’s zebra. Grevy also unlike the more common zebra with thicker stripesAero Club of East Africa, Nairobi
Wings over MombasaLion spoorHaki Africa press conference after closure of four mosques in Mombasa
Eid Baraza, Mombasa
Pate IslandMosque near Shimo La Tewa prison, Mombasa
Post Mpekatoni Security meeting
Mpekatoni
Manda BayPolice escorts for the Lamu County governor.
DohaFlip sides of two coins – police reservist Athmed Bakshwein (left) murdered in Malindi last January by unknown assailants. Abu Shariff Athmed alias Makaburi murdered by death squad on April 1, 2014. RIP
Mpekatoni
Governor of Lamu CountyChurch in Mombasa“Westgate” scrawled on a wall near a mosqueIstanbulHemed was arrested after police raided a mosque last February and has never been seen again. His family suspects the police “disappeared” him.Health notice at Kenya International Conference Center, Nairobi
Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan JohoThe genial jihadist “Makaburi” a few weeks before death squads killed him.MalindiMosque near Shimo La Tewa prison/Shanzu Courts, Mombasa
