25 dead as truck bomber attacks hotel in Mogadishu
NAIROBI– At least 25 people have been killed by a truck bomb targeting a hotel near Somali presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu Tuesday, police...
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Kenya arrests ISIS-linked Somali students in Malindi raid
By Jeff Mwaura NAIROBI – Police in the Kenyan resort town of Malindi have arrested two students linked to the so-called Islamic State group who...
More Ugandan women still trafficked to the Arab world
Written by JONATHAN KAMOGA Eight months after government banned the export of Ugandan women to work as house- maids in the Middle East due to...
Uganda’s youth are aspirational but lack integrity, opportunity
Nearly 80 per cent of East Africa’s population is below 35 years of age, and the median age is estimated to be 18 years By...
Somalia’s forgotten institutions
By Mohamed Moalimuu The long civil war in Somalia caused extensive damage in the capital Mogadishu. Private and public buildings were completely ruined. Since Al...
Somalia, Kenya: neighbors, enemy actors
By Jeff Mwaura NAIROBI – At Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta airport, an immigration officer shoves his hand into a Somali legislator’s chest, telling him to either...
At Somali hospital, alcohol smell overshadows failed bomber’s blood stench
By Jeff Mwaura, jeff@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – The strong alcohol smell consumes a hospital ward in the Somali capital where a suicide car bomber captured after...
Kenya: Cheating female politician busted on hidden cam in bedroom
By Jeff Mwaura NAIROBI – It was supposed to be a relaxing Sunday for the married Kenyan politician who shared cool Tusker shots with her...
