Eastern Africa’s Coalition of the Willing

From the archive: this column first appeared in September 2013. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Kigali have little in common; in as far as the peoples and cultures have come to be known, and business has come to be...

My Umrah Trip

From the archive: this column first appeared in August 2013. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. Umrah is a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, performed by Muslims that can be undertaken at any time of the year. In the Sharia, Umrah means to...