Land ho!
On the road toward a home of my own.
Continue ReadingLetters to Annie from Kaftanistan
On the road toward a home of my own.
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When you’ve lived in a place like this for eleven years
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Continue ReadingCouldn’t help but think of Venezuela’s 2018 presidential race that re-elected Nicolas Maduro to a second six-year term, and that was thought to be rigged. However it would appear that Smartmatic the multinational that builds and implements electronic voting systems is one of the good guys. Kenya’s electoral authority has condemned the “brazen” arrest in […]
Continue ReadingFirst came a floating bar. Now a lone floating slot machine? The heralding of Lamu’s first casino? Jackpot! Alas, no. The standing digital petrol pump meters out fuel far more accurately than the hoses usually reserved to fill boats’ tanks. Here, as elsewhere, fuel is expensive. Every shilling counts. Fishermen say they can spend an […]
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“It’s a zero-sum game between Ruto and Raila with everything hanging in the balance.”
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Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for targeting the elite US-trained Danab force in a roadside explosion about 110 km southwest of Mogadishu on Sunday. The attack killed a French national working with Bancroft Global Development, an American private military company. Two other contractors with the company were injured, as well as two senior Somali Brigade […]
Continue ReadingIranian authorities have blamed arch enemy Israel and the exiled opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, known as MEK, for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.Here’s a primer on the MEK described herein as a cult, and backed by Trump’s lawyer, Rudi Giuliani, former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, professor/lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, […]
Continue ReadingAmerica is seeking clearance to launch drone strikes against Islamic militants operating in Kenya, according to Pentagon sources, as part of efforts to counter jihadists’ growing reach into Africa.
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The timing of this verdict is interesting given the imminent US presidential election.Since the attack in 2013 the Kenya and US govs have presented zero evidence (to the public anyway) that any of the four attackers as seen on CCTV were killed. If there were (DNA evidence) the Kenya gov would have been reminding us […]
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