Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
NAIROBI, Kenya – A ruling is expected tomorrow in the case of a suspected ivory smuggler who today pleaded guilty to ivory-related charges. According to the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) Tang Yong Jian was arrested on January 18 at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for attempting to smuggle 3.4 kg of raw ivory that officials […]
Burundi’s Black Market Skull Trade WORLD NEWS 01.26.14 Margot Kiser Has the tiny nation of Burundi become ground zero for a new global black-market trade in human remains? BUJUMBURA, Burundi – In evenings when the hippo emerges from the depths of Lake Tanganyika to graze its grassy shores, members of Bujumbura’s expat community gather […]
The greatest challenge for the stoned teen at a Grateful Dead concert – and what I loved about going – was trying to figure out when their tuning up stopped and the actual song-playing began. But I had a great mentor back then. He took me to Dead concerts all over California and he eventually […]
2013 Lamu Cultural Week. Unlike Maulidi, the annual ancient Swahili event celebrating birth of the Prophet Mohammed, Cultural Week is a tourist event celebrating of Lamu Old Town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site with more than 700 years of continuous settlement. And for better or worse that means no cars on the island. Organized […]
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“Al-Shabab is entirely capable of undertaking complex attacks with or without al-Qaeda’s assistance,” Matt Bryden, former coordinator of the UN Somalia Monitoring Group, told Al Jazeera.
1. If you want to inspect a scene in the minutes, hours or days following a major crisis – especially one involving national security – never, ever tell members of the government or armed forces you’re a journalist, even or especially if you’re staffer or freelancer with a major media outlet. Lie, lie, lie. That’s […]
Fazal Virani, the owner of Sir Henry’s tailor shop on the mall’s ground floor, was one of the lucky ones. So was “David Kivoi”, a 25-year old father working at telecommunications shop on the first floor. David was on the escalator heading down to Nakumatt around noon to grab a soda when he heard the […]
Slaughter in Nairobi: Bloody Siege in Shopping Mall Kills Dozens http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/22/slaughter-in-nairobi-bloody-siege-in-shopping-mall-kills-dozens.html by Margot Kiser Sep 22, 2013 9:23 AM EDT THE BLOODY SIEGE CONTINUES at a luxury mall in Nairobi where 59 were gunned down and dozens are still captive. Margot Kiser talks to Kenyans who say they’re shocked—but not surprised—by the terror. Sadia Ahmed, a […]
