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...months ago when I walked down the narrow alleyways of Mombasa, I never would have imagined that this sleepy city could turn into the war-zone that it is today. But, since the rigged December 27th presidential elections, violence has swept over Kenya from the port city of Mombasa to the slums of Nairobi. By comparison to some of its East African neighbors, Kenya has been an example of peaceful democracy. Nevertheless, Kenya’s current unrest is the legacy of its failure to address historical injustices and is a sad reminder of the virulent resentments that longstanding inequalities...
...back Kibaki. The two groups co-exist in an uneasy rivalry in Kenya. On Monday, crowds of Kikuyus in the west of the country were reported to be fleeing across the border to Uganda, while six Kikuyus were hacked to death in the popular tourist port city of Mombasa. Police, given orders to shoot rioters on sight, imposed a curfew at locations across the country and barred people from leaving the slums, a tactic which may have contained the violence but also kept innocent people from fleeing. The television channel KTN said 124 people had been killed, but other media...
Fazul's group allegedly struck again on Nov. 28, 2002, killing 13 people when gunmen attacked the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel near Mombasa, Kenya, and launched two missiles (both missed) at an Israeli airliner in Kenyan airspace. In 2003, staff at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi evacuated for a week following reports that Fazul wanted to level the new building, and in 2006 al-Sudani was implicated in a plot to attack a U.S. base in Djibouti. All of this means that in the fight against Islamic terrorism, Africa is an increasing worry. "If we're successful in denying...
...What will your book (Not on Our Watch, co-written with John Prendergast) do to inform the world of what is happening in Darfur? -Jimmy Apungu in Mombasa, Kenya Well, hopefully the whole point of writing the book was to show not only what led up to the events that are occurring today, but also what is happening today in Darfur. It also includes the reactions to Darfur, specifically what John and I and other have been involved with to address this crisis...
...tougher man. I became a doctor in the Israeli army, and am now chief commander of the medical forces. I go to catastrophes around the world. I helped after the Kenya bombings in 1998, the earthquakes in Turkey and Greece in 1999 and I spent three months in Mombasa. I wouldn't serve if it weren't in the search and rescue. We don't carry guns...