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Margot Kiser

Nairobi

Freelance Features Writer at Al Jazeera English

Features Writer at Newsweek

Foreign Correspondent at The Daily Beast

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  • Mar 9, 2024 | margotkiser.com | Margot Kiser

    [This story was first published by The Elephant, January 26, 2024, and has been updated for republication here.] MARGOT KISER – Cult Leader Mackenzie’s Beginnings and Shakahola End-Times Originally published January 26, 20241/26/24, 7:04 AM MARGOT KISER – Cult Leader Mackenzie’s Beginnings and Shakahola End-Times – The Elephant https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/01/26/cult-leader-mackenzies-beginnings-and-shakahola-end-times/ # # # After a time equal to the gestation period of a...

  • Jan 26, 2024 | theelephant.info | Margot Kiser

    Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. After a time equal to the gestation period of a human pregnancy, the prosecution of parties associated with the Shakahola massacre is underway. Charges range from terrorism, radicalization, murder, manslaughter, torture and cruelty to children to illegally operating a film studio. The trials will proceed in courts in Mombasa and Malindi.

  • May 26, 2023 | theelephant.info | Margot Kiser

    Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. Though it claimed the lives of three Americans, not 2,403, some liken the January 2020 al-Shabaab attack at Manda Bay, Kenya, to Pearl Harbour. The US would go on to unleash massive airstrikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia. “We Americans hate being caught out,” a spy-plane pilot and contractor recently told me.

  • May 25, 2023 | theelephant.info | Margot Kiser

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Margot Kiser
Margot Kiser @margotkiser
7 May 25

US State Department offers USD10mn reward for information on Abdullahi Banati, an #ALSHABAB terrorist linked to 2020 Manda Bay attack #Kenyasecurity #Boniforest Read the backstory https://t.co/W9k6DRMnmh

Margot Kiser
Margot Kiser @margotkiser
2 May 25

Kenya security - at least 5 police officers killed, 5 injured in al Shabaab ambush in Lamu's Boni Forest; elite unit was tracking militants for two days #alShabab #kenya

Margot Kiser
Margot Kiser @margotkiser
16 Apr 25

Grotesque: rich aging Israelis, Yankees, and Brits are lining up and shelling out €200K for kidney transplants in Kenya while recipients receive just €4K #organttafficking Israel Embassy in Nairobi says organ trafficking is a serious crime, pledges legal action against