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Live tonight - Kenya one year on
Streaming live video by Ustream We'll be discussing Kenya at the Frontline Club tonight one year after the violence that followed the elections. We start at 7 pm GMT/11am PST Tue 3 March and as usual, if you can't make it to the club in person, you can join the discussion...more
Clifford Derrick reporting Kenyan election violence
Video journalist Clifford Derrick talks to The Mail & Guardian about how he reported the election violence in Kenya that began on December 27, 2007, He decided to set up base in the slums to record the story. It was a distinctly dangerous choice. "On three occasions cops threatened...more
Cows for McCain
Rob writes that the lovely beast above "gets it" if Obama wins tonight - Rob's standing outside Granny Sarah Obama's house in Kenya and blogging LIVE(ish)....more
The places we live
Jonas Bendiksen publishes the latest Magnum in Motion project today. Called The places we live, the project focusses on people who live in four slums across the world; from Caracas to the large Kibera slum in Nairobi, the Dharavi slum in the suburbs of Mumbai and the Indonesian capital...more
The case of Trent Keegan
Freelance photographer Trent Keegan was murdered on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. His body was found in a ditch on Wednesday, 28 May. I'm not going to say much more about this at the moment, but I'd like to point you Nairobi-based, Frontline blogger, Rob Crilly who knew Trent...more
Alex Strick van Linschoten joins the Frontline
Alex Strick van Linschoten has been living and working in Afghanistan on and off for the last five years. He'll be writing a blog here at From the Frontline called A war reporter on the road. He starts in Kenya, but he'll also be blogging from Somalia, Chechnya and Iraq...more
Not taking any flak yet
The BBC TV war reporter comedy series Taking the flak was supposed to start filming in Kenya this month. Due to the unrest there, the project has been shelved for now. Richard Kay in The Daily Mail has more, Alas the £1million series - called Taking The Flak and starring...more
Rob Crilly in Nairobi
Nairobi-based freelance journalist Rob Crilly is the latest addition to the blog stable at From the Frontline. Rob started blogging at South of West late last year. He's been very busy with coverage from Kenya for The Times, Irish Times, Christian Science Monitor and The Daily Mail during the...more
Think Balkans, not Rwanda
Picture originaly uploaded by DEMOSH The last thing a massive news organisation should do is inflame an already volatile situation by using inflamatory words and phrases with deep historical significance. This is, I hope, why almost all of the mainstream media reporting on the current situation in Kenya has...more
Kenyan crackdown
Shashank Bengali works for McClatchy newspapers and is based in Nairobi. He blogged about recent events in Kenya and took a number of snaps of the local media on the job recording what was happening. Here's the clip for the snap above, Photog gets a closeup of the police...more
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