Terror in Nairobi

Selalame awaiting her flight home at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. PIC FLORENCE RADULL
Selalame awaiting her flight home at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. PIC FLORENCE RADULL

When Koketso Selalame boarded a Kenya Airways flight from Gaborone to Nairobi, Kenya on May 2, for a two-week holiday, little did she know that in less than a week she would be back home and traumatised.

“My South African fiancée works for the United Nations and he was recently transferred to Nairobi. Since we didn’t manage to spend the Easter break together, he suggested I visit him at his new posting,” says the 34-year-old business woman, who hails from Tonota.

She was giddy with excitement the week before the trip as she had only previously travelled in the Southern African region.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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