Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
LAMU, Kenya – British High Commissioner and Kenya’s Administrative Police launched a high-speed patrol boat in a joint effort to buoy Lamu’s tanked tourist industry. The UK donated craft – a Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) – will be based on Ndau island, an Administrative Police Marine Unit base, in the Lamu archipelago to help patrol […]
The first incident — the murder and kidnapping at Kiwayu — was alone brazen enough to seem a declaration of war. As weeks passed it seemed as though that might have been a one-off, an isolated crime of opportunity. Not the handiwork of pirates. Just thugs. Maybe even just local thugs. Then there was Marie […]
Ten heavily armed gunman reportedly stormed the beach near Lamu island in Kenya early this morning, firing shots, and abducting an handicapped Frenchwoman from her sea front grass hut. According to Lamu police, the gunmen and their hostage “went out into the open sea”. Around 2 AM, residents of Shella, a small European enclave near […]
