Kenya
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | June 21st, 2005 | Trackback
After some twenty years of battling poachers, many from Somalia, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has finally driven them out of Tsavo East National Park, the country’s largest wildlife reserve, and reopened the entire park to visitors. The northern two-thirds of the reserve has been off-limits since the 1980s but is now open for a limited number of tourists. The KWS has built new roads in the north and improved six airstrips in the reserve that composes 40 percent of Kenya’s total park area. The 5,400 square mile reserve is home to all of the animals one usually associates with an African safari. Authorities intend to keep poachers out of the park by fighting them outside it, driving them back toward Somalia.
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Kenya
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | June 14th, 2005 | Trackback
The Mombasa-Nairobi Highway has been plagued by banditry for years, and police have repeatedly vowed to make it safer, but the recent killing of three truck drivers by bandits not only suggests the highway is still dangerous but also prompted some 200 truckers to block the road for more than 24 hours in protest. They claim that police stations on the route are understaffed and demanded the government take measures to secure the highway. Thousands of vehicles were jammed or turned back.
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