Who Killed This Man Who Saved So Many Rhinos and Elephants?
A land grab may have been behind the murder in Kenya of American conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin.
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Unintended Consequences: A Fitness App Reveals a Secret US Military Base in Kenya
Fitness tracking Strava App reveals outlines of secret US bases (because people jog around the perimeter) around the world and as well as potentially sensitive information about military personnel on active duty. Here’s what US Forward Operating Base Camp Simba in Lamu County, Kenya looks like. The long vertical line in red is Camp Simba’s […]
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Images 2017
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Alternet : ‘Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War against al-Shabaab’
‘The goal of the extrajudicial executions, according to Kiser, is to “exterminate and intimidate people believed to be associated with the Al Shabaab movement in neighboring Somalia.” Religious leaders told Kiser that Kenyan security forces “are targeting them unfairly for persecution if not indeed for summary execution,” though local authorities say they have intelligence linking imams to al-Shabaab’
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Living The Island Dream
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Lamu County votes 2017
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Kenyatta Wins Big in Kenya–But U.S.-Style Election Skullduggery Taints the Results | The Daily Beast
A number of election-cycle oddities go unexplained—including the novel involvement of foreign big-data and PR consultancies who’ve played significant roles in electoral upsets in both the U.S. and U.K.
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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.”
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2016 in Images
Sailing dhows made of garbage, crusaders, flying low over a baobab-packed forest, guerrilla warfare, Maulidi festival, tattooed and “bearded badasses”. This year I seemed to be at a loss for words. For most of last year I stayed in Lamu. I wanted to keep a close eye on a military operation.
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Fatal Shooting in Nairobi Reveals U.S. Security Detail (WARNING: Graphic Image)
A Kenyan man was shot dead last week outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi after he stabbed a GSU police officer guarding the compound. Police identified the knife-wielder as Abdimahat Ibrahim Hassan, a 22 year-old from Wajir, in northern Kenya. Much of northern Kenya has been inhabited by ethnic Somalis before and since the nation’s […]
