A ban on new logging contracts has done little to slow deforestation or help local firms face up to the big boys.

The failure of Nairobi's security and intelligence forces to interdict the Westgate attack is rooted in the wider counter-insurgency policy against Al-Shabaab and their increasingly numerous Kenya-based franchises.

Kenyans want to know about failures that allowed terrorists to kill more than 60 people in the attack.

Expressing his apprehension at the opening of yet another continental conference season, Hannibal was refreshed to see himself proved wrong at the recent African Development Bank (AfDB) meetings that took place on 27-31 May in Marrakech.

In his first public address to the country on 18 July, interim president Adly Mansour, the man the generals chose to lead the post-Mohamed Morsi transition, said there would be no going back, accusing his opponents of wanting to steer the country into chaos.

At camp Chechelesi on the outskirts of Isiolo town, a young female crouched on the bare floor, mourning her unborn baby. The woman, a refugee, lost her baby six months to term.