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...departing President's adviser Abbi Has tells TIME. "Yusuf and Ethiopian troops were not in Somalia when the Somali people began to be held ransom, so all those people who are now saying Yusuf is blocking peace, where were they at that time?" - With reporting by Alexander Dawale / Nairobi...
Like most Kenyans, Rachel Kung'u takes a do-it-yourself approach to security. Last year, police did nothing when gangs went on a killing spree and blocked the main road into Nairobi during ethnic violence following the elections. Kungu had to face down the thugs herself. Eventually, she persuaded them to back off. "I told them, now that you blocked the road, food cannot go through, people cannot flee," Kung'u remembers. "They were starving their own people...
...Down, and now the Ethiopians, know to their cost. Present day U.S. operations against the Islamists - publicly confined to air strikes, but also including some clandestine fighting on the ground - have killed two significant leaders, including the bomb-maker in the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania...
...Hussein, the second premier to be dismissed in as many years. Not that the nominal government rules more than a few blocks of Mogadishu. Earlier this year, many of the other members of the Somali government and parliament gave up on their country and decamped to the Kenyan capital Nairobi. (See pictures of Somalia's pirates...
...TIME's Nairobi Bureau Chief, Andrew Purvis covered the genocidal conflict in Rwanda in the 1990s. He is now TIME's Berlin Bureau chief...