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A coordinated attack by Al-Shabaab militants killed 21 civilians and five attackers at a hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2019. The attack lasted for over 22 hours and involved a suicide bombing, gunfire and grenades.
A 2013 terrorist attack by al-Shabaab on an upmarket mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 71 people and wounded 200. The attackers were four masked gunmen who threw grenades and fired indiscriminately at shoppers and diners.
Daily Nation is a Kenyan newspaper founded in 1958 and published in Nairobi. It is owned by the Aga Khan and has a market share of 74% in 2013, competing with The Standard and other media outlets.
Pamella Makotsi-Sittoni (born 1969) is a Kenyan journalist and an author who currently serves the Executive Editor and Managing Editor of the Daily Nation at the Nation Media Group (NMG). She was named the position in 2019, making her the first woman to hold such position in the publishing house’s history.
There are two independent national daily newspapers, the Daily Nation, The Standard, and two daily free newspapers, X News, and The People Daily. There are also two specialised daily papers, Business Daily and The Star, and one weekly paper, The East African, which is published in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kampala. [6]
As a journalist at the Nation, Fernandes lived through the Mau Mau rebellion – people fighting for the return of their lands – and then lead-up to Kenyan independence in 1963, and after this, violent times which included one tribe's dominance over the country and, after discriminatory laws were passed, the departure of many Asians from Kenya.
Larry Madowo is a Kenyan journalist and CNN International Correspondent. He has worked for the BBC, the Washington Post, and CNBC Africa, and has covered topics such as business, politics, technology, and culture.
He added that "the Kenyan people should know they have an unwavering friend and ally in the United States of America". [27] [28] [3] The British High Commission, which had issued an extended travel advisory covering Kenya at large, [7] advised against all but essential travel to within 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) of the Coast Region. [29]