Wapi Ndizi yangu!

… but currently Kenya is my home.
Things seem to be getting much worse before they get better. Since last Thursday two more major towns in the Rift Valley have started burning and are experiencing running battles between different ethnic groups. Today we woke up to the news that a new MP [...]

I had to do some shopping for the house yesterday, so stopped by the local grocery.  The Red Cross was set up outside the store and was taking blood donations to assist with victims of the current ongoing violence that is taking place in Kenya.
I decided donating a pint of blood was at least something [...]

Kenya
Right now its just waiting. Are they talking ? What is being planned? Is there going to be city wide disturbances again? What…?
It doesn’t seem like anything is going anywhere. There are a lot mouths talking, but nothing happening. Except for more deaths, more burning homes, more displacement of people [...]

A group of bloggers in Kenya and abroad have put together a website called www.ushahidi.com.  Ushadidi comes from a Swahili word which can mean the following in english: Evidence, Testimony, Witness and Proof.
Hash from whiteafrica.com has been very instrumental in getting up the site and explains its purpose:
” As I mentioned in my last [...]

… is back.  my stomach hurts.
Kibaki announced his new cabinet.  He has also called for parliment to open on the 15th of January.  Which on one hand is good that the government wants to start its work.  There is just that thorny issue of all the controversy surrounding the election, the fact that the leader [...]

The city was working today.  Traffic jammed up in all the right places. The streets were crowded with people.  That gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach that the country was tittering on the brink of utter chaos subsided a bit.  Think it has managed to take a step back and steady itself somewhat, [...]

Got this from a friend and thought I would share:
“happy new year.
do hope you are ok with your family.
also hope you are in Nairobi safely and not fighting in the streets. or wherever part of the world you are now.
me ok and safe. our place here is quite and life is as usual.
schools were to [...]

There isn’t much to say today. It’s quiet.
There was a very small presence of police at different points through out the town. Small groups positioned at intersections. Drove past part of Uhuru park, still a bunch of police there. As we drove past Adams Arcade this morning I noticed a [...]