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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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Lamu County votes 2017
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Kenyatta Wins Big in Kenya–But U.S.-Style Election Skullduggery Taints the Results | The Daily Beast
A number of election-cycle oddities go unexplained—including the novel involvement of foreign big-data and PR consultancies who’ve played significant roles in electoral upsets in both the U.S. and U.K.
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View To Grenfell Tower, West London [VIDEO]
LONDON, England – On June 14th a 24-story public housing apartment building caught fire killing at least 80. A faulty freezer-fridge in an apartment sparked the blaze, but police say flammable insulation and exposed gas pipes along the building’s only staircase fueled it. The death toll is expected to rise, so it’s no wonder police […]
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Adventures in Eldercare
I spent the last several weeks in Tucson helping my mother transition to “independent living” after she’d suffered a mild heart attack and stroke. The first takeway – in Tucson (and probably in most retirement communities) elder care is not a service, it’s an industry. Before her discharge from the hospital a case manager told […]
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Big Game: U.S. Soldiers’ Secret Hunt for Jihadists in a Kenyan Forest
“The Americans are very complicated, aren’t they? On the one hand they are helping us by building roads, dispensaries, schools, but they also seem to want to kill us.”
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The Sea in Salalah
OMANعمامه A Dubai-based pilot and friend suggested I visit Salalah, a port town on the southern tip of Oman. He told me to visit from June to September or in January, when the monsoon rains paint the sun-baked desert a brilliant green. “What’s the story with Oman?,” I asked a Yemeni friend. “There is […]
