Cameron Grant

Independent journalist with a focus on East Africa. Thoughts and tweets are my own.

[Martin Minns @Minns_Martin]

If David Hotte is a spy, who was he spying for? The French? The EU? And why the seeming media blackout? #DavidHotte #Hotte #Trump #RutoMustGo #America #Kware @kenyaforum @WinnieKabintie @CJG_ant @teresia_boke https://t.co/xn9RobaZzN

[Martin Minns @Minns_Martin]

Gen Z in Kenya: one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking articles on a new phenomenon by one of Kenya's best columnists #GenZ #WiggyG #GoonZ #Kindiki @kenyaforum @WinnieKabintie @CJG_ant https://t.co/JEr9ZHhU0Z

[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

The DPP has approved the levelling of 10 criminal charges against Pastor Paul Mackenzie for his role in bringing about the #ShakaholaMassacre.

Some of those charges are thought be linked with terrorism.

#PastorMackenzie

https://t.co/Ev6dEBMHLs

[Martin Minns @Minns_Martin]

Top 50 articles on The Kenya Forum 2023. Cracking reading - Informative, Explanatory, Entertaining. #PaySiiToMpesa #MainaAndKingangi #NajibBalala #TDJakes #SuperLeague @kenyaforum @WinnieKabintie @teresia_boke @CJG_ant https://t.co/ikJfw75okQ

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

@eeeirf @DrAseemMalhotra I did a search also and those articles are about charges for mismanagement of the initial stages of the pandemic being dropped. The dropped charges are not in relation to vaccine deaths, different case entirely.

[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

#BennyHinn's proposed 'crusade' of Kenya has already generated a lot of interest.

Few media outlets have looked into what it might mean for Kenyans.

We've looked into questions about his healings, his lavish lifestyle and other controversies.

https://t.co/9JuXGz2AKO

[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

This video, posted yesterday, is doing the rounds on X.

The captions alongside suggest the same thing: that this matatu conductor (who has been stripped of his t-shirt in the video) is being arrested for charging a police officer fare.

The police officer was not in uniform.

[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

Kenyans have you ever doubted your partner in a relationship? If so, how did you overcome it if you could?

Doubt is the big destroyer of trust, and trust, as we know is the foundation of a healthy relationship.

https://t.co/BYPNibJ1rW

[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

Q2: Why did the building collapse?

Initially, the official story was that the carpark fell in on itself because the terrorists had set off explosives and set fire to mattresses inside the Westgate mall.

This explanation was obviously criticised.

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[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

Ask yourselves this: if looting is a given (from the forces employed to protect us), and there is no record of the terrorists having been killed, what else could the KDF and 'recce group' have been doing in Westgate while concerned families waited outside?

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[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

In CCTV footage, you can see KDF members strolling around the Nakumatt shopping centre with full bags of goods.

In a video press conference after the event, KDF boss Julius Karangi admits that looting went on.

He frames it as the work of rogue elements within KDF.

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[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

Nothing to see here. Just Rigathi Gachagua saying that there are tigers in Kenya.

Some commentators saying this is him lying. Looks more to me like he genuinely believes it. No wonder the DP walks at such a furious pace on his morning strolls.

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

BBC don't be posting this. We're in the middle of a #KenyaVsNigeria war.

Kenya Power will do the same just so that Kenya isn't outdone.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Nigeria hit by widespread blackouts in 'total system collapse' https://t.co/iDlVDNn0u4

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

@kenyaforum I've seen many calls for the resignation of @HonAdenDuale following this video. Obviously, stopping terror in Lamu County is his responsibility but this video is old and it is obvious that making calls that destabilise Kenya's govt. is exactly what #AlShabaab wants.

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

@MathetesDave @triggerpod @KonstantinKisin I studied History at Uni; I did a four-year integrated Masters.

I've often wondered in the years since whether no knowledge of/interest in History would leave global societies better off than having the limited, politicised access we do have does.

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

@guardian We're living in the era of comic book origin stories.

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

Say what you will about Harry Maguire but the man has got some thick skin.

The last two years, he's taken enough flak for (even a footballer's) lifetime. Many would've hidden from it; he hasn't and, at times, he's even stepped to it.

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

If you don't want to watch the Al-Shabaab video of militants attacking the construction site in Lamu, I'd suggest reading this thread as an alternative.

The video is chilling and very, very sad.

#Lamu #AlShabaab

[The Kenya Forum @kenyaforum]

What you need to know about the now-circulating, and harrowing, video purporting to be of Al-Shabaab militants attacking construction workers at the Kwa Omollo bridge construction site in Lamu. A thread 🧵

[Cameron Grant @CJG_ant]

@omwambaKE Apparently it happened on the 11th of March in 2022 and they are only publicising the video now.

Obviously, they are doing it to spread terror and to bring a halt to that LAPSSET project.

The terrorists want to stop an infrastructure project that could connect Central Africa.