Word: mombasa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government ferry carrying more than three times its licensed passenger load of 150 capsized while taking workers across Mombasa harbor. Rescuers reported 200 dead and 200 missing...
...Gell's information, the United Nations mission to Somalia (if he ever heard of it) began with the U.S. launching relief flights from Mombasa, Kenya. In the ensuing months, Kenya became a popular holiday resort for the troops serving in Somalia and provided an emergency evacuation destination and medical center. Despite Mr. Gell's likes, with limited information and prejudiced views, Kenya remains an island of peace...
Elephant tusks, rhino horns and leopard skins confiscated from poachers were a common sight in the "ivory room" of the Kenyan Game Department's Mombasa office, where Werikhe used to work. But a pair of 50-kg (110-lb.) tusks brought in one day by a game warden induced him to start his one-man crusade. "Being an African, I see wildlife as part of my heritage," Werikhe says. "If wildlife goes, then part of me is dead. I wanted to campaign for wildlife in my own private...
...first wildlife walk, in 1982, Werikhe traveled 2,400 km (1,500 miles), from Kampala, Uganda, through Kenya to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and back to Mombasa, with only a pet python named Survival for company. Lecturing to villagers and schoolchildren, he raised about $30,000 for conservation groups. In 1988 Werikhe went to Europe, covering 2,900 km (1,800 miles) in 135 days, and collected almost $1 million for rhino sanctuaries. Partly as a result of Werikhe's efforts, Kenya's black rhino population -- once as low as 400 animals -- has been slowly increasing since 1988. When Werikhe...