Patrick Mathangani
Patrick Mathangani is Central Kenya bureau chief for The Standard, Kenya's second-biggest daily. He has worked as a reporter for Kenya's leading daily, The Daily Nation, and regional weekly The East African. He has also written features for The Los Angeles Times and AlertNet.
Sex pests trawl Kenyan displacement camps
In the violence-plagued Rift Valley town of Nakuru, everybody was talking about the new curfew. Imposed by the government to stem fighting between gangs from different tribes, the order to be either indoors or out of town by 7 p.m. seemed to be having an unexpected and tragic consequence - sexual violence was on the increase. At one of the town's camps for people displaced by Kenya's post-election turmoil, an elderly man told me his niece had been lured outside and raped. ...
The faces of security on Kenya's highway to hell
After a month of bloodshed, it was a big relief to drive through Nairobi without running into rampaging protesters. Unusually, traffic flowed smoothly on the road, meaning that people were still avoiding going to town and choosing to stay at home. ...
Misery as Kenya's political warlords wage violence
A dusty, winding path led to a clearing where a woman wailed next to her smouldering mud-and-thatch hut. She used one loose end of her sarong to dab tears rolling down her cheeks, then stared at us with wet, sad eyes. We ducked to avoid ashes blown our way by a sudden gust of wind. Charred household items - beds, pots and stoves - lay in place of huts burnt earlier in the morning by armed men in this remote village in Kenya's Coast province. ...
