Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
Write from experience, and experience only… Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost – Henry James, American-born writer (1843-1916)
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 […]
Link to published article, Kenya tourism tanks amid increasing violence http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/08/kenya-tourism-tanks-amid-increasing-violence-201481093454546196.html DRAFT of “Tourism and ‘Terrorism’ “– AJE Mombasa July 28th, 2014 MOMBASA – It is the first evening of Islam’s Eid al Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan. Wealthy Mombasa residents – mainly of Arab descent – flock […]
Link to published article, Kenya tourism tanks amid increasing violence http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/08/kenya-tourism-tanks-amid-increasing-violence-201481093454546196.html DRAFT of “Tourism and ‘Terrorism’ “– AJE Mombasa July 28th, 2014 MOMBASA – It is the first evening of Islam’s Eid al Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan. Wealthy Mombasa residents – mainly of Arab descent – […]
Mombasa Police chief, Robert Kitur, confirmed to reporters that around 17.10 (5:10 pm) near the entrance of Mombasa’s Makiti market, three men – one armed with a pistol – appeared from a corner of a building and shot dead a 28-year old German woman, identified as Christine Testa, and a 33 year-old Ugandan male, who […]
Mpekatoni is a small town in Lamu County on Kenya’s north coast. When initial reports came out of an attack that eventually left up to fifty dead, the international community thought it had occurred in or near Lamu Old Town on Lamu island. Mpekatoni is in fact on the mainland about 30 kilometers by car […]
Kenya’s death squads are back in action in the coastal holiday-destination city of Mombasa. At 8:15 on Friday night the owner of the Modern Coach bus company was shot dead by ‘unknown assailants’ close to the Changamwe police station. Shahid Bhutt, in his late fifties, had just picked up his son at Moi international airport and […]
A security meeting was held in Lamu town yesterday attended by the new Lamu County Commissioner, Mirii Njenga, the County Chief of Security, various hoteliers and frightened residents. Local and foreign media were also present. Kenya’s armed forces have reportedly secured Mpekatoni and other villages on the mainland. The only thing that seems certain so […]
…from the fifth floor at Harvey Nichs. @HSMPress_: @MargotKiser this was the work of a homegrown Alshabab inspired group. They’re the stage where Alshabab was in prolly 2003 or 2004.
