Word: nairobi
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...That mentality dates back to colonial times. "Black people used to be looked down upon so now they see white people as better," says Peter Ngumo, 23, a Nairobi clothing salesman. "They believe being light is the only way they can be appreciated." West African mothers still pinch their babies' noses in the hope they will grow thinner and more European-looking. Modeling pageants still shun African shapes and stipulate slim hips. Add the influence of advertising and television and, "as much as a lot of people don't like to admit it, the belief that light skin is more...
SENTENCED. MOHAMED RASHED DAOUD AL-'OWHALI, 24, Saudi Arabian terrorist convicted on 213 counts of murder in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya; to life in prison without parole; in New York City. Al-'Owhali's life was spared after the jury deadlocked on whether to impose the death penalty...
...Nairobi Calling It's automatic. You pick up the phone, punch a few buttons and the call goes through. Most times I bet you don't even think about the mechanics of using the phone - like driving a familiar route home from work, it's simply a habit. You certainly don't congratulate yourself on getting through when you hear a friend or colleague at the other end of the line. Why should you? Phones just work. Or at least they do in some parts of the world...
...worst when it rains. Many of the old copper lines simply can't cope with wet weather. When a two year long drought broke earlier this year, Kenyans thanked God. At long last they could have regular power and water again. They were less pleased when whole suburbs of Nairobi lost their phone lines for a month. Thus affected, I rang Telkom Kenya, the state-owned monopoly, from my one working line every few days to get updates on the progress of their repair work on my main line. After a couple of weeks, the manager in charge...
...suspects can be a hit-and-miss game: Wadih el Hage, one of the four men convicted of the East Africa bombings, had been under surveillance for two years before the bombings. A year before the attack, Kenyan and U.S. agents had even detained him for questioning at the Nairobi airport. And yet, according to the indictment, El Hage still managed to play a major role in organizing a bombing attack on the American embassy in Nairobi that killed 212 people...