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Author: Margot Kiser
I am a Kenya-based correspondent, focusing on conflict in East Africa. I have contributed to Newsweek, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, among others.
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Marine recruit dies in Parris Island in Beaufort County, SC | Hilton Head Island Packet
The cause of death for a Marine who died Tuesday on base at Parris Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina is under investigation. Name, age of recruit. Including Evans, there have been at least 10 deaths on Parris Island since 2000. — Read on amp.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/bg-military/article274510826.html
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Kenyan Poll Body Slams Arrest Of Vote Contractors | Barron’s
Couldn’t help but think of Venezuela’s 2018 presidential race that re-elected Nicolas Maduro to a second six-year term, and that was thought to be rigged. However it would appear that Smartmatic the multinational that builds and implements electronic voting systems is one of the good guys. Kenya’s electoral authority has condemned the “brazen” arrest in […]
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Lamu’s offshore amenities
First came a floating bar. Now a lone floating slot machine? The heralding of Lamu’s first casino? Jackpot! Alas, no. The standing digital petrol pump meters out fuel far more accurately than the hoses usually reserved to fill boats’ tanks. Here, as elsewhere, fuel is expensive. Every shilling counts. Fishermen say they can spend an […]
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The U.S. has no Ambassador in Kenya?
“It’s a zero-sum game between Ruto and Raila with everything hanging in the balance.”
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Richard Leakey had dreams and worries about the future of mankind
Given all that he’d achieved I wondered how he’d been overlooked for a knighthood. “The Brits don’t like me,” he said. “My father was pro Mau-Mau.”
