nairobi Archives – Jewish Journal

Rabbi, Wife Beaten in Robbery with Anti-Semitic Elements in Kenya

JTA April 24, 2019

This Israeli ex-diplomat is Kenya’s biggest pop star

Jewish Journal October 20, 2015

Zipping between meetings at Nairobi’s five-star hotels wearing a suit and tie, Gilad Millo looks every bit the ex-diplomat he is.

Gunmen kill 28 in northeast Kenya bus attack

Jewish Journal November 22, 2014

Attackers ambushed a bus and killed 28 people early on Saturday in northeast Kenya, police and the Ministry of Interior said.

Three hours in Africa’s largest slum

Jewish Journal January 22, 2014

When fashioning their flying toilets, residents of the Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera prefer to use thick plastic bags. But to save money, area resident Wellington Nabwoba said, they’ll settle for a black garbage bag with a drawstring.

From Nairobi to Pakistan religicide rears its ugly head

Jewish Journal October 10, 2013

The carnage at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, the homicide bombers massacre of worshipers at an historic church in Peshawar, deposed Muslim Brotherhood loyalists torch scores of Coptic churches in Egypt, a series of vicious attacks against Nigerian Christians and churches…

Between past and future: Israel, Africa and the Apartheid Canard

Jewish Journal October 10, 2013

Israelis were not surprised by the terrorist attack by last month’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, killing 67 people. They had been on alert against such dangers since two attacks on Israeli targets in Mombasa in 2002. Indeed, there were reports that Israeli experts helped Kenyan forces deal with the Mall takeover.