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The Nearest Exit is Behind You – 2014 in Photos

Margot Kiser

Random images from travels and subjects I wrote about last year.

 

Road to Mpekatoni
Joy’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 safari
Independence Day, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Photo on #ISIS related FB page
The Nearest Exit is Behind You

 

 

Found him hanging in the women’s washroom at Frontline Club.
River walk
Casablanca, 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. RIP
Arabian desert
14th century villa converted into guesthouse-Nord-de-Pinus (pronounced phonetically)

Doha beautiful from this angle
Lamu, photo MK

 

Mombasa Republican Council Secretary General, Randu Nzai

 

US Ambassador, Robert Godec, Foreign Correspondence Association of East Africa evening Gigiri, Nairobi
Sunrise 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, Turkey
Orma garage mechanic, Mpekatoni

Dhow race, Shela village, Lamu
Hope the cow who parallel parked beside motorbikes almost every day for years, Malindi RIP

Proposed plans for the Lamu Port
Eid Lamu town

Cafe in Soho NYC
Doha
Arabian desert
A Christian wedding at a mosque, Istanbul
Mangrove 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 relations
Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud with Secretary of State John Kerry

 

psychedelic Grevy’s zebra. Grevy also unlike the more common zebra with thicker stripes
Aero Club of East Africa, Nairobi

Wings over Mombasa
Lion spoor
Haki Africa press conference after closure of four mosques in Mombasa

Eid Baraza, Mombasa

 

 

Pate Island
Mosque near Shimo La Tewa prison, Mombasa

Post Mpekatoni Security meeting

Mpekatoni

Manda Bay
Police escorts for the Lamu County governor.

Doha
Flip 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 County
Church in Mombasa
“Westgate”  scrawled on a wall near a mosque
Istanbul
Hemed 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 Joho
The genial jihadist “Makaburi” a few weeks before death squads killed him.
Malindi
Mosque near Shimo La Tewa prison/Shanzu Courts, Mombasa

      

Turtle hatchling

 

 

 

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