Showing posts with label Lions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lions. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Monday, February 11, 2013
Lions Bring Rush-Hour Traffic To A Standstill In Nairobi (PHOTOS)
Two lions brought rush-hour traffic to a standstill in Nairobi, Kenya when they decided to have a lie down in the middle the street.
It was during the morning commute on the the edge of the Nairobi National Park that two young males appeared on the side of the road and strolled out in front of cars and trucks for a roll-around.
The African lions’ antics caused tail backs as they found the busy road the perfect place to rub themselves in buffalo faeces,
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Part 1: Inside The Lion’s Den of Nigeria’s Boko Haram
Yvonne Ndege is a British-Kenyan journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria. She is the West Africa Correspondent for the English-language news channel, Al Jazeera English. Here, she shares her experience of visiting Boko-Haram-torn Maiduguri. My five days in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria – the epicentre of violence perpetrated by the armed group, Boko Haram – was fraught with danger. I had been trying to get access to report from the city for over a year.
Part 2: Inside The Lion’s Den of Nigeria’s Boko Haram
Before the chaos took hold, I remembered Maiduguri as a surprisingly cosmopolitan and peaceful town, with an eclectic mix of people of different faiths, ethnicities, and subcultures; as well as different types of food and music. The people of Maiduguri had struck me as ordinary people, with a somewhat royal air, steeped in their tradition – but at the same time having a somewhat modern and outward look. Borno State shares borders with the former French colonies of Niger to the north and Chad to the north-east – giving one a strange feeling of being in Francophone Africa too.
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