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Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American journalist who has been the East Africa bureau chief of The New York Times, based in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2006.

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A Soccer Match in Sudan Includes Soldiers and Guns

KHARTOUM, Sudan The streets emptied at sunset. Twitchy-faced soldiers hit the pavement, literally thousands of them, wearing all stripes of camouflage, blues, greens, grays and browns. They twirled clubs and AK-47s and plastic pipes and ragged old ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Forest People May Lose Home in Kenyan Plan

MARASHONI, Kenya With the stroke of a pen, the last of Kenya’s honey hunters may soon be homeless. Ogiek farmers near Nakuru, Kenya, are among those who could be evicted in the government's avowed effort to conserve the forest. The Ogiek are ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ford Foundation

U.N. Says American Delays Led to Aid Cuts in Somalia

NAIROBI, Kenya United Nations officials said on Friday that the supply of critical food aid to Somalia had been interrupted and that rations to starving people needed to be cut, partly because the American government has delayed food contributions out ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Al-Qaeda

Somali Pirates Move Couple Onto Land

NAIROBI, Kenya The Somali pirates holding a British couple whisked the captives off a hijacked ship on Saturday to a pirate lair about 60 miles inland, according to the pirates and several coastal residents. The pirates apparently have been bickering ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN AND MOHAMMED IBRAHIM, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

British Couple Held off Somali Coast

NAIROBI, Kenya Somali pirates said Thursday that they had moved a British couple seized from their sailboat last week to a container ship anchored off Somalia’s lawless shores, and that they would “protect” the British captives until a ransom was ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN AND MOHAMED IBRAHIM, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Chandler

In Somalia, a New Template for Fighting Terrorism

Somalia isn’t just a nagging geopolitical headache that won’t go away. It is also a cautionary tale. Few countries in modern history have been governmentless for so long, and as the United States has learned, it would be nice to think you could ignore ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan,  Barack Obama,  The Pentagon,  John Nagl

Kenya’s Criminals Tap a Growth Industry: Kidnapping

NAIROBI, Kenya Little Emmanuel Aguer was one of the most recent victims. Ater Aguek, left, and Morris Ater, the father and uncle of Emmanuel Aguer, 6, who was snatched last month on the way to his grandmothers house. Four days later, his uncle found ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Dot Earth: Africa’s Devastating Drought

GALKAIYO, Somalia – Ahmed Mahamoud Hassan has probably one of the worst jobs on the planet: drought chairman of the Galmudug region of Somalia, one of the hottest, driest, poorest patches of one of the world’s most utterly failed states. His job is to ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Andrew C. Revkin,  United Nations,  World Vision,  John Simon,  Facebook Inc.

Annan Warns Kenyans of Danger

NAIROBI, Kenya Kofi Annan delivered a stern message to Kenya on Wednesday, saying there was a “crisis in confidence” in the political leadership and that the country was flirting with disaster by delaying much-needed reforms. Concluding a three-day ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Kofi Annan,  United Nations,  International Criminal Court,  Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga

Rwandan Fugitive Is Captured in Uganda

NAIROBI, Kenya One of the most wanted fugitives from Rwanda’s genocide, an intelligence officer accused of organizing the slaughter of countless civilians, including a ceremonial queen, was arrested in Uganda this week, Ugandan and Rwandan officials ...

From JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: BBC

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