Wapi Ndizi yangu!

Getting posters printed this week to send to Sudan.  Mary had to scrape some money together in Juba just to get it done.  Her party, South Sudan Democratic Forum,  does not have very deep pockets like some of the other parties in the competition.  She is a little worried that she won’t be able to [...]

My friend sent this to me from Juba today. Mary is already getting in the local news. Woohoo!!

Last week I escorted a couple of Journalists from the Netherlands around Nairobi & Naivasha so they could attempt to do some stories on the recent violence and problems that have been going on in here in the country.  These are a group of photos I took along the way.  We visited three camps, one [...]

… 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 [...]

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 [...]

… 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, [...]

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 [...]