Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
MONSTERS CHRISTIANS WARNED, THEN KILLED IN KENYAN UNIVERSITY MASSACRE BY MARGOT KISER 04.02.15 Around 5:30 Thursday morning, when Hassan Osman, a 35-year-old newlywed and an employee with Kenya’s Ministry of Health in Garissa, was in the mosque praying, he heard the sharp report of rapid gunfire rip through the still morning air. The noise came […]
According to sources on the ground in Garissa, the death toll will easily exceed the last official count of 147. Those helping remove bodies say at least 286 died at the scene. It’s unclear how many died later of injuries. Witnesses say the attackers did not separate Christians from Muslims nor was anyone beheaded. The guards manning the entrance of […]
A new online jihadist magazine calls on East African militants to pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda #Kenya #Somalia http://t.co/fElL1osZl8 https://archive.org/stream/AmkaMagazine/Al-Muhajiroun01#page/n0/mode/1up
The Kenya Siege Since late last year, Western forces have dealt the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab some high-impact blows. A drone strike in September killed one of its most ruthless jihadists, Ahmed Abdi Godane. Earlier this month, a second drone strike killed Yusef Dheeq, the group’s commander of external operations. Meanwhile, according to human rights […]
Random images from travels and subjects I wrote about last year.
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According to a recent Reporters without Borders index Kenya ranks at #90. After today, with the new security bill, its position no doubt plummeted closer to #180, the bottom position, which Eritrea now occupies. Kenya’s Jubilee government reacted to press coverage of Westgate Mall attack in 2013 (exposing Kenya Defense Forces looting items […]
Poor intelligence and evidence gathering, and a weak judicial process, have resulted in reliance on dirty-war tactics such as mass arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, rape, and extrajudicial killings.
Kenya’s Black Gold, ‘Texas Tea’ Last week Nairobi hosted the 3rd annual East Africa Oil and Gas Summit at the Kenya International Conference Center ( #KICC ). Among attendees at the two-day confab were independent exploration and production companies Simba Energy, Milio International, Halliburton, Africa Oil Corp, Tullow, and Horizon Energy. Government petroleum and mining ministers […]
I hadn’t been back to Lamu since early July, shortly after the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for massacring up to 60 people in villages on the mainland. A businessman from a well Koen political family whom I’d met in Nairobi for the first time recently winced when I told him I spend a […]
