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...TIME that they were assured their visas and passports were in order. Corsi said he had been upfront about his intentions when he arrived. According to Corsi and Bueler, the author was told that the government had misplaced their immigration cards, which visitors fill out upon arrival at the Nairobi airport. "Dr. Corsi can return to Kenya anytime," said Bueler. "They said our passports were O.K. and our visas were O.K., but they had lost our immigration cards...
...Diplomats in Nairobi, speaking on condition of anonymity, made clear that they shared the suspicion that the tanks were destined for south Sudan, where Kenya has supported a secessionist resistance movement oppossed to the northern Sudanese-dominated government in Khartoum. The fact that such a shipment might contravene international arms embargoes might help explain why the Faina, traveling with minimal security on board, presented itself as an unremarkable cargo freighter - to fool officials along its route as well as pirates. Of more concern to East Africa's regional security, recent reports from north and south Sudan have suggested both sides...
...With reporting by Abdiaziz Hassan Ahmed Dhoore / Nairobi...
...Somalis traditionally drive on the right or the left,'' he says. (It's the right.) ''With no traffic cops, anything goes.'' Swimming at the tempting beaches on the Indian Ocean isn't recommended: two foreigners were killed this year by sharks. Do the perils of this story get the Nairobi-based Purvis down? A little, he admits. ''The decision to come here can be trying, although I always feel better when I'm on the plane and the job has begun.'' We look forward to knowing he is on a plane home, his work well done...
...Mealer, an American, was a young freelance reporter based in Nairobi when he was first sent to the D.R.C. by the AP in 2003. The job repeatedly put him on the front line - his book opens with a long description of a brutal gun battle between two tribal militia groups in the eastern town of Bunia. It then moves to the capital, Kinshasa, where Mealer was posted by the Associated Press wire agency in 2004, and covers the bumpy transition from war to peace. After that, it's back to more fighting in the east, before Mealer embarks...