Word: nairobi
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Douglas Sidialo, 31, lost his eyesight on Aug. 7, 1998, when terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. A simultaneous bombing at the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, resulted in a total of 224 people dead and thousands injured. The U.S. responded quickly with $50 million in humanitarian aid. But, says Sidialo, who heads Nairobi's largest survivors' group, "It's our hope that Americans could help us even more...
...rest of the world. U. S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle was sent a letter contaminated with anthrax spores, which led to 31 of his staff testing positive for exposure to the disease. Staffers at three U.S. television networks and the New York Post also tested positive, and a Nairobi doctor received a package apparently containing anthrax bacteria. Panic shut post offices and government buildings...
...Nairobi Dar es Salaam Aug. 7, 1998 Car bombs exploded outside U.S. embassies in the two African capitals, killing 224 people. Bin Laden was later indicted for the attacks...
...with the BBC, whose anchor suggested that Americans had traditionally had a sense of "invulnerability." Not so; in the last decade, whether because of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, the threat to blow up trans-Pacific flights, the bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, or the attack on the Cole in Aden harbor this year, Americans have understood that they could be a target. The degree of security in government offices and at airports is of a degree unimaginable only 20 years ago, when you could wander around...
...centuries, China has mined the faraway continent for its treasures. Zheng He himself loaded his ships with ambergris, elephant tusk and rhino horn. Despite Kenya's shoot-to-kill order for wildlife poachers, much of the ivory and rhino horn leaves Africa by air from its capital, Nairobi, or by sea from the nation's largest port, Mombasa. As much as 40% of the contraband ultimately ends up in China, where it is used for medicinal purposes and as a natural Viagra. "Little man eat rhino," says Zhu, in his best English, "little man become very...