Word: nairobi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...whom Washington calls "the most immediate and serious [terrorist] threat" to U.S. security today, for his nonstop terror attempts. Soon to come is Ali Mohamed, another Jihadist turned songbird seeking security in U.S. hands because he can tie bin Laden and several of his top lieutenants directly to the Nairobi bombing...
Kariuki's new patrons, many of whom had never had a bed of their own, were getting their first taste of life in Ngata Children's Home, founded by and named after Kariuki, in Kirinyaga, the small village just north of Nairobi where he was born 63 years ago. The modest building will be both their home and their school until they turn 18. It is part of Kariuki's effort to do good and at the same time boost Kenyan tourism--by taking on a small part of a problem the government has been unable to address: dealing with...
...Like Ochilo, Kinyanjui, who is a Nairobi-based marketing manager, is careful whom he tells about his sexual orientation. When colleagues at a former job discovered he was gay, some threatened to quit and others began cleaning the phone every time he used it. "People become outcasts," he says. "Society doesn't want to have anything to do with you." Scholastica Mghallu, 28, a lesbian teacher in Kenya, says she looks forward to the day "when it will no longer be a crime to be gay. We need to uplift each other...
...living with his boyfriend of 13 years, Kinyanjui earned the admiration of his mother and siblings by being open and honest. "My mum never showed me any hatred and so the rest of my family had to follow suit," he says, sipping a cold drink at an upmarket Nairobi restaurant. "I think if you give respect you will get it in return." For African gays and lesbians, though, finding that attitude in others remains rare...
...murder of his idealist young wife Tessa prompts career diplomat Justin Quayle, a member of the British High Commission in Nairobi, to investigate the humanitarian causes that she lived--and may have died--for. Before long, the widower finds himself on the trail of a shadowy pharmaceutical multinational selling a questionable TB drug to Africans. No one plays this sort of cat-and-mouse game better than Le Carre, although this time good and evil are a tad too easy to tell apart...