Margot Kiser

A short, bloody raid by U.S. Special Operations Forces on an al Qaeda base in Yemen in the second week of Don…

JUBA, South Sudan - A hopeful myth persists in this region that "wildlife refugees"-fauna in flight from war-…

NAIROBI - In what may give the term "birther" new meaning, it's rumored that in Kogelo, President Barack Huss…

NAIROBI - Air Force One landed in Nairobi this evening, bringing Barack Obama back to his father's homeland. …

Around 5:30 Thursday morning, when Hassan Osman, a 35-year-old newlywed and an employee with Kenya's Ministry…

Around 5:30 Thursday morning, when Hassan Osman, a 35-year-old newlywed and an employee with Kenya's Ministry…

Just after midnight on December 2, about 20 gunmen from the Somali militant group Al-Shabab rousted awake min…

Attacks on tourists have contributed to a steep decline in tourism in Kenya. Mombasa, Kenya - In July, a Russ…

A brutal attack on a crowd of World Cup watchers at a hotel in northern Kenya has reportedly left at least 48…

MOMBASA, Kenya-"The state wants to kill me," the 53-year-old jihadist Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, better known as…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi - In evenings when the hippo emerges from the depths of Lake Tanganyika to graze its grass…

Nairobi, Kenya - Since its invasion of Somalia in 2011, the al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab has vowed to leav…

Sadia Ahmed, a young presenter with a popular Kenyan radio station, was covering an Indian food cook-off on t…

My Daily Beast review of "A Long Walk Home": Judith Tebbut's memoir as pirate hostage in Somalia.

STONE TOWN, Zanzibar-Men in long white kanzus (robes) glide through ancient alleyways like dhows slicing thro…

Nearly two years after Somali pirates kidnapped them, two Spanish foreign aid workers suddenly reappeared at …

I cover resource conflict, human rights, security matters and geopolitics in East Africa and Somalia.

After they finished their workshop on land-mine hazard reduction early Tuesday afternoon, the aid workers hur…

A U.S. Navy SEALs unit, of the same special category that killed Osama bin Laden, has rescued an American and…

With her recent release from captivity, Judith Tebbutt may soon be able to close a grim chapter of her life. …

Waiting for justice more than 50 years-and counting, Margot Kiser reports from Kenya. The first thing Wambugu…

How long before Africa's rhinos and elephants are wiped out in the wild? You wouldn't think a room as big as …

How long before Africa's rhinos and elephants are wiped out in the wild?