Margot Kiser

Why is the U.S. Military Authority Seeking to Expand its Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya?

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020Margot Kiser

The New York Times has reported that the U.S. military aims to broaden its counterterrorism drone war in Kenya. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/shabab-drone-authorities-kenya.html#click=https://t.co/Lam9HALEWU Why now?A couple of things come to mind; damage control (publicity) ahead of presidential elections, and competition with China’s expanding military footprint in Africa.Seems to me that the US conducting drone strikes inside Kenya is […]

Kenya’s Creeping Americanization

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020Margot Kiser

Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King, Pizza Hut – they’re all here now. The fast food chains started to mushroom soon after President Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya in 2015. Obama brought with him “American interests”. Soft power America wants Kenya or any to be like America so they can more easily do business together. They […]

A Coal-Fired Power Plant in Lamu?

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020Margot Kiser

In 2017? If it goes through it will be the first in East Africa. A consortium of Kenyan and Chinese companies is proposing to construct a 1,050 MW coal-fire power plant, only 13 miles from Lamu town. A mega-port now under construction is bad enough but nowhere as degrading to the environment and livelihoods as […]

The Israeli-Saudi Love Affair

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020Margot Kiser

One year ago, on Oct 2nd, a fifteen-man Saudi hit team intercepted journalist/dissident Jamal Kashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. He’d gone there to obtain documents to marry his Turkish fiancé, and settle into their new apartment. But it was a trap. The death squad suffocated then dismembered him. His remains are thought to […]

Remembering the August 7th 1998 Al-Qaeda bomb blast in Nairobi

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020Margot Kiser

Dr. Silverstein remarked that he hadn’t heard a sound like that since the Norfolk hotel was bombed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980.

Notes on the abduction and ransom of Sylvia Aisha Romano

May 13, 2020May 14, 2020Margot Kiser

While a ransom was paid to Al-Shabaab, the militant group may not have been aid worker Sylvia Aisha Romano original captors in Malindi two years ago. Reports have suggested that Kenya Wildlife Service personnel were arrested in their connection with the abduction and that they hid the aid worker in the vast and dense Boni […]

Best and worst of 2019 – 1

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019Margot Kiser

January 2019 did not kick off to a good start for me. I couldn’t walk, for one thing. The previous November I fell hard on my knee, not realising I’d torn my meniscus–a cartilage that acts as a cushion between the tibia and femur. Instead of getting an MRI when in Nairobi, where I fell, […]

2019 in images

December 24, 2019December 25, 2019Margot Kiser

Herbert Menzer is one of the great connectors and influencers on Lamu Island. Herbert hails from Hamburg, Germany, and over the years has constructed several large, luxurious, modern Swahili rental villas in Shela village. He’s also the mastermind behind the annual Lamu Hat Contest, and The Painters Festival. Both will be held February 1-16, 2020. […]

Quietly Killing Julian Assange

December 21, 2019December 26, 2019Margot Kiser

The sculptured tableaux of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning – crusaders of transparency and free speech – are true to life… their silence is ironic. Where are the voices for Julian Assange? While Manning is serving her own jail sentence and Snowden lives in exile, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains locked up in […]

Kenya’s Worst Rhino Massacre Was the Work of People Trying to Save the Species

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019Margot Kiser

Kenya’s Worst Rhino Massacre Was the Work of People Trying to Save the Species THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES Margot Kiser Published Oct. 08, 2018 5:22AM ET NAIROBI—You may have missed World Rhino Day last month. Even here in Kenya, many people did. Such events rarely raise the public’s consciousness the way they should, and this year, certainly, […]

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