Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
Is the International Criminal Court (ICC) guilty of political cleansing? Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), must have gasped on hearing Uganda’s Museveni lash out at the ICC while the newly sworn in Uhuru Kenyatta and Zimbabwe‘s Robert Mugabe clapping and snickering in the background. In his speech, Museveni accused […]
Film clip accompanying my Newsweek /DailyBeast feature, The Economics of Extinction, 01.28.2013 Watch a Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) veterinarian sharpshooter dart an endangered black rhino for translocation. Laikipia, Kenya. link to article – http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/28/the-economics-of-extinction-africa-s-elephants-and-rhinos-in-danger.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/margotkiser?feature=guide 1. – Feb 2012 Trip to Mogadishu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZfNDSPdE24 to Shabelle Media, Mogadishu 2. Kenya Wildlife Service Rhino Darting in Laikipia 3. Various Kenya Decides 2013 – presidential election
3.18.2013 Kenya Elections 2013 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/monday-03-18-13-batchelor/id589864479?i=136828975 3.05.2013 Lamu Port/ Kenya Elections 2013 | Think Africa Press http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/2013/03/05/fourth-hour 2.01.2013 Economics of Extinction; How soon before the elephant and rhino are wiped out in the wild? | Newsweek http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/2013/02/01/second-hour 10.24.2012 See You in Court: We were tortured in Mau Mau – Era detention camps | Newsweek http://johnbatchelorshow.com/schedule/2012/10/14 Pirates […]
Salah is Islamic prayer worshipers practice five times a day – the way the worshipers hold their hands conveys to me humility and surrender. The intense look in that child’s eyes tells me I was intruding on a deeply intimate moment.
(A lot about the Land). “Uhuru will remain as president-elect,” says Betty, placing a basin of hot water on the floor. Her next client is badly in need of a pedicure. “The Court is having a recount for ‘the stupid voters’,” she says. “But we people know nothing will change.” Betty is a Giriama, a […]
Life in Mogadishu looks safe and peaceful – until all of a sudden it’s not.
“It is highly unlikely that kidnappers will strike again at tourist areas on Kenya’s north coast,” says Major Emmanual Chirchir, former spokesman during Operation Linda Nchi, Kenya’s military campaign in Somalia to fight Al Shabaab. “But towns and refugee camps like Dadaab near the porous Kenya-Somali border in the northeast remain vulnerable.”
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=4680918613205″ width=”1280″ height=”720″ frameborder=”0″> Maulidi is the Swahili (East African coast) traditional celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammed. Muslims as far away as the Comoros and Zanzibar meet in Lamu, Kenya for the annual festival. Lamu Old Town is one of the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlements along African’s east coast, which UNESCO […]
Newsweek | The Economics of Extinction | Margot Kiser | video footage of rhino darting and horn amputation on THE DAILY BEAST TV NOTES from visit – The red antique scale probably older than the tusks it weighs. A foot long tusk labeled ‘CITES 0090009 KILIMANJARO – 4/10’ belonged to a sub-adult elephant, probably five […]
