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...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...
...Africans, the Chinese are benefactors who send doctors and engineers and build roads, stadiums and hospitals. As I barrel down the smoothest stretch of tarmac (which was built by a Chinese firm) connecting the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Mombasa, village children greet me, with my half-Asian features, by cheering: "China road, China road." In Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where Zheng He's ships once landed, the city's biggest sports facility is called the Chinese stadium. "It is very simple," says Zhu Xiaochuan, China's economic and commercial counselor in Nairobi, as he sips imported jasmine tea. "Africa needs...
...other Chinese laborers in a cramped dormitory, dining on rice and stir-fried veggies. She never visited any of capital Antananarivo's sights. Nor was she paid what she had been promised, although her wages were higher than for factory work at home. Now on the marathon Antananarivo-Nairobi-Abu Dhabi-Hong Kong trip back to Nanjing, we stop at an airport duty-free shop and hunt for souvenirs. After 36 months away, she decides she will return from Africa with a giant Toblerone bar, a bag of Sugus fruit chews and a bottle of Lubriderm Daily UV Lotion...
...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...