Trip to Lamu port, dredger and proposed site of coal-fired power plant March 3, 2017
On bridge of a Chinese dredger near Lamu port.
My article Big Game: U.S. Secret Hunt for Jihadists in a Kenyan forest | The Marjan Centre | War and the Non-Human Sphere | King’s College, London
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Big Game: U.S. Soldiers’ Secret Hunt for Jihadists in a Kenyan Forest
“The Americans are very complicated, aren't they? On the one hand they are helping us by building roads, dispensaries, schools, but they also seem to want to kill us.”
Long Goodbye – How Obama Glossed Over Africa’s Troubles – The Daily Beast
LONG GOODBYE 07.27.15 2:20 PM ET How Obama Glossed Over Africa’s Troubles By MARGOT KISER To keep his visit […]
Obama Lands to Controversy in Kenya – The Daily Beast
“We fear Obama is coming to teach our children to be gay,” the owner of a beauty salon in a Christian town on the coast told me. In reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month to recognize a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, one anti-gay-rights fringe group reportedly plans to protest in Nairobi—and, for reasons as yet unclear, to do so in the nude.
Sad About Cecil? These African Animals Are Slaughtered By The Thousands – The Daily Beast
South Sudan’s civil war has been a disaster for humans and animals alike. Soldiers on both sides have turned the slaughter of giraffes and other animals into an industry.
Christians Warned, Then Killed in Kenyan University Massacre – The Daily Beast
MONSTERS CHRISTIANS WARNED, THEN KILLED IN KENYAN UNIVERSITY MASSACRE BY MARGOT KISER 04.02.15 Around 5:30 Thursday morning, when Hassan Osman, […]
Al-Shabab’s Anti-Christian Slaughter – Why Kenya’s Punitive Counter-Terror Measures aren’t Working – The Daily Beast
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 tourism tanks amid increasing violence | Al Jazeera
Kenya tourism tanks amid increasing violence Margot Kiser Attacks on tourists has contributed to a steep decline in tourism in […]
Tom Mcnamee’s ‘The Killing of Wolf Number Ten’ – a review
The irony and tragedy of Wolf Number Ten’s long journey is in having successfully habituated to its new environs only to stray outside the park, where it meets its fate
Militants Execute Non-Musims at Kenyan World Cup Watch
WORLD06. 16. 14 MILITANTS ‘EXECUTED NON-MUSLIMS’ AT KENYAN WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY by Margot Kiser A brutal attack on a […]
Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers | The Daily Beast
Religious leaders say Kenyan security forces are targeting them unfairly for persecution if not indeed for summary execution, but the police argue they have clear intelligence linking many of the local preachers to Somali terrorists.
Burundi’s Black Market Skull Trade | Margot Kiser | The Daily Beast
Burundi’s Black Market Skull Trade WORLD NEWS 01.26.14 Margot Kiser Has the tiny nation of Burundi become ground zero […]
Lamu Cultural Festival 2013
2013 Lamu Cultural Week. Unlike Maulidi, the annual ancient Swahili event celebrating birth of the Prophet Mohammed, Cultural Week is […]
Interview on the John Batchelor Show re Westgate: Kenya government continues to embarass itself
AUDIO: Wed 10/30/13 Hr 4 http://t.co/WeSxEMoUr0 @jamestaranto @a_jafarzadeh @margotkiser & Joseph Rago @wsjopinion — John Batchelor (@batchelorshow) October 31, 2013
Questions remain a month after Westgate | Al Jazeera
"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.
