embassies and nairobi, kenya and tanzania. the attacks killed 224, including 12 americans and wounded more than 5000. the terrorist group al qaeda and its leader osama bin laden claimed responsibility. next, on american artifacts, we visit the u.s. diplomacy center in washington, dc to tour an exhibit marking the 20th anniversary of the bombings. we are joined by the state department officials in charge of the embassies at the time. john: hello, i am john. at time of the east africa bombings i was chief of mission at the american embassy in tanzania. there was a gap between ambassadors, i was in charge at the time. prudence: good morning, i am prudence. i was the u.s. ambassador to kenya at the time of the bombing. 20 years later we are in the pavilion and we are going to look at some of the artifacts and telling stories behind them. diplomacy does not always mean sitting behind a desk and wearing nice clothes. sometimes those nice clothes get bloody and dirty because of the dangerous position. for example, this is the suit i

it just heightened the tension of people in nairobi. fortunately, that bill never got to the united states. i have actually not seen it. >> i must say that i have some video footage that was used in the trial in new york when the perpetrators at the embassy were tried and been sentenced to life in prison. and i don't know where these people came from what they ended up they had videotape of the seconds or a couple of minutes at most after the bomb went off. and some of it is quite gruesome what they showed. >> right. >> speaking of a trial, there was a poster that was in dar es salaam that was put all around wanted for murder. and it had some photographs of the people who were believed to be in the conspiracy including osama bin laden. and when i later became the us ambassador to botswana, i had it on my wall. and i would ask non-americans who came to visit me who wondered why an ambassador would have a wanted poster on his wall. i just wanted to leave it there. one other thing. the international herald tribune's front page, the photogr

another busload of nairobi and citizens -- of nairobi citizens was incinerated. hell. a site from no one in nairobi will ever forget. i would like to point out that on this corner now is a peace kenyans and by american citizens that has the names of everybody who died. the people who we remember the people we remember today. the photo was taken on august 12 because the aircraft carrying american rescuers and fire department canine squad were late, the israelis arrived first. they went through the rubble, a woman named rose was called a kenyan rose because for four days she survived under rubble. 15 minutes before they got to her she died. she was the last person to die in the rubble. the israelis had the ceremony which included a replaying what one of the photographers caught this image of that day. my husband complain because they cut him out. he was right next to me area the photograph shows everything. it was one of the pictures that say a thousand words. john: the u.s. government clocks are battery operated. prudence: and none run. john: they all stopped when the b

which all used to get put onto a single lane road from mombasa to nairobi.gestion, fatalities, and so on -- but kenya has not properly addressed the bottleneck at the inland container depot in nairobi. and it is heaving with containers. so the congestion within nairobi is hurting business. rishaad: do you use it? >> yes. we are all using it. rishaad: even though it is more extensive? >> logistics is always two way. from mombasa going all the way to rwanda, and of course it can go all the way to west africa. as we speak today, there is no railway or roadway going to west africa. and that can be done easily to expand it. when we talk about competitiveness, we are talking about return logistics going back from kigali to mombasa to china. we could have that two-way logistic becoming competitive. this is so key for all of our countries to have export products. and export into those markets. so we are competitive both ways. rishaad: bitco is africa's leading producer of edible oils. it also makes other consumer products. with factories in kenya, and madagascar, th

mobile payments are commonplace in nairobi ten years ago it was the m.k. some obama money transfer service that launched the country's digital revolution beat i have innovation center is our first stop. so this is where we have the meeting rooms and the staffs and told this site. you have boardrooms and then this is the legacy so you can see to anyway i have provided co-working space internet access mentorship and training to nairobi spotting tech industries. in twenty seventeen it was bought by a venture capital firm some said the hub had grown up. others miss the old sense of community. you could come and be together you could talk to another person and wonder what chord is what about someone else work understand why would we too until i have. to you know be something good you know you're part of my day to me so i support them and you've been like the queen of mobile and innovation in nairobi for quite some time now so how would you say status change the biggest thing i think that has changed now is. we have a lot of investors but does that change the mi

the waste we center on the edge of nairobi comes from kenya and neighboring countries. kenya has no official the waste recycling program was just a way of assuring kenya in general awareness on properties but often a friend expressed used to a very low so we can't end this for those who know that what we do some of them will bring a chance why does he have to go and collect them damn cephalon jamba shows us some of the valuable raw materials contained in the waste the employees also recover components that can be re-used. like these simple motors this little more from. us if you. can buy one of the local partners to make the deep interest i'm actually going to go see royce from a.b.m. treaty the friend of mine it on a bit of paper i take some of them yes if i make a great thank you very much on the strength of thank you you have done most of this yeah ok most it's done enough. we take the components with us to a.b. three d. which stands for africa born three d. printing. it's a one stop. that manufactures three d. printers and offers materials workshops and open source

and training to nairobi's budding tech industries. in twenty seventeen it was bought by a venture capital firm some said the hub had grown up. others miss the old sense of community. you could come and be together you could talk to another person and wonder what board is what about someone else who are understand why would we to a job i have. to you know be something i'm going to be a part of some of it too so i support them and use them like the queen of mobile and of a share in the room here for quite some time now so how would you say status change the biggest thing i think that has changed now is. we have a lot of investors but does that change the mindset of the entrepreneurs i think people who cannot exempt impact enough it's likely or fortune that you know because all the problems on my journey to the problems are we have yeah that's the sort of types of problems if it's a decision for you if it's if it's even with just sticks and utilities it's it's just all about that equal mass is huge but if you look at the things people bu

mobile payments are commonplace and nairobi ten years ago it was the m.k. some obama money transfer service has launched the country's digital revolution i hope innovation center is our first stop. so this is where we have meetings loose and then discuss he told this site. boardrooms and then this is his legacy so you can see to a new way by hub provided co-working space internet access mentorship and training to nairobi budding tech industries. in twenty seventeen it was bought by a venture capital firm some said the hub had grown up. others missed the old sense of community. you could come into together you could talk to another person who understands what gordon's what about someone else what i understand why would we tell a joke to have and. you know be something and go you know your parents um i did so it was the point there and you've been like the queen of most violent. they sure have been there over there for quite some time now so how would you say status change the biggest thing i think that us changed to now is. we have a lot of investors but doe

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in nairobi skyscrapers are set against slums that are home to millions of people. david's life on the capital streets began eighteen years ago when he was twelve he says it's a fight for survival and. i ran away from school because of the horrible teachers who beat us all the time i gave up and came to the streets that's where i have been ever since. after years of political unrest kenya's economic outlook is said to be brighter the latest government figures suggest poverty is down but they might not tell the whole story volunteers working with underprivileged communities say that from their vantage point. the reality on the ground looks very different and that the number of kenyans who are homeless kids and adults might actually be going up. economic migration from rural areas a rising cost of living and overall lack of opportunities aid groups say these kinds of things mean entire families are ending up on the streets and a new generation of kenyans is being born into poverty. some attempts are being made to improve literacy among children. the idea is with their

district it says the ban is needed to decongest the city center but for many nairobi residents it's causing more problems than it solves. and the crises are in one of. five wasted a lot of time. my job requires that i move from one end of the city to another. and also by those who come won't stop distance or the muslim brotherhood but. the issue is that many vans are not allowed into the city center look at the traffic it's causing. minivan drivers and conductors say that unless the ban is lifted nairobi residents will just have to keep on walking. football's prestigious award will be handed out tonight to the top men's player of twenty eighteen as voted for by journalists and there are also two new awards for best young player and the women's but under the men's and favorites luke and margaret should follow champions league success with real madrid and with a fantastic world cup campaign leading croatia to the final in a russian in the young player category france a world cup winner. is expected to take home the trophy while barcelona striker liko martens to leave the running for t

in down dura where one of nairobi's biggest dumpsites is located we speakers come every day to sort through the rubbish amongst them its twenty eight year old gardening or chair he views his work as an essential service and himself as a self-employed businessman he has specialized and can make a descent living from salvaging garbage. garbage covering an area bigger than thirty football fields just a few kilometers from the center of nairobi every day hundreds of trucks haul trash here from the city. the dump is like a big unorganized recycling center some people like godwin here almost every day salem you have heard of us were moved after the i sift through the garbage because i'm trying to earn a little money. i'm no longer on my own with the knife and i have a wife and child now and they're waiting for me to come home with milk or bread in the evening i can't go back empty handed. the kenyan capital produces nearly two thousand tons of trash every day. the sanitation department is overwhelmed most of the waste ends up like this in the dumps outside the city. the garbage collectors gather

kenya who live in this nairobi slum call it chocolate city named for the color of the rusted metal sheets used to build the homes. life here is hard it's where we met a man who makes a living using a gun kind of afraid but he goes to bars hotels night clubs looking for easy prey and fast cash robbing the rich police would say he's a common criminal he calls himself robin hood and it for them a place the kids need to go to school and that. he says he's willing to surrender his guns but friends who did ended up dead a few days later for men like him it seems survival means having a gun i'm doing this for my kids not for me kids to do what i'm doing i'm doing this for me is for them to get a purpose because. to get jobs a little support so they can could be. in another house we need a mother who knows the consequences of gun violence all too well she says police shot her son richard in the back nearly a decade later she's still not sure what happened that day was saying that. you can never admit that your child does any wrong i remember him as a good hearted person he would come and hug me a

has them while the charity albinism society of kenya held a mr and miss albinism beauty pageant in nairobi to support those with some form of albinism now thirty people took parts from kenya tanzania and uganda the pageant was titled accept me included me i can and that's because the contest is not just a beauty pageant but a way to raise awareness and inclusion for people who remain the target of sometimes deadly stigma in african countries well i act more as the chair of the group and he explains why the event is so important. this is another also what. was the result of the cuban assault i really thought that there might be time to see the group called the war zones that really. wasn't going to see also have a hypocrite especially in the third division but with regard to the arts for example. the dumb talk about putin did not think of everything don't you have some of these some of them in here but well the albinism is a rare non-contagious genetically inherited condition that leads to a lack of pigmentation in this hair and skin and also in the eye is causing sensitivity to the sun and

jazeera nairobi well now another drive temporarily grounded flights at britain's got we kept. on now back on schedule military technology is being used to but the drone pilot still hasn't been found they've baka has law. thirty six hours of transport misery is slowly coming to an end a limited number of domestic and european flights were allowed to leave and land on friday but most long haul flights remain counseled the airport is coping with a backlog of tens of thousands of passengers many forced to bed down on the terminal floor overnight the reopening of the airport is being cautiously welcomed i think is something to relate. you know more than causing panic they've made this sort of thing you're going to madrid in an hour and they were saying it's console one another saying we're flying so it's all quite the decision to reopen get with follow the arrival of specialists military equipment on thursday police said they would be willing to shoot the drones down if they reappear again they were thought to be at least two drones described as being of industrial specification in

nairobi. more than two million venezuelans escaping economic crisis resettled in countries across south america in argentina some are resorting to music to cope with the difficulties of being away from home to his apartment some of them in buenos iris. tradition an argentine tango music with a venice will end twist. the news came to win a scientist who escaped the crisis in venezuela now a member of this band it makes her feel just a bit closer to home i mean i left because when my baby was born i was afraid he could die because we couldn't find medicine that's why we came here now playing here helps to stay united and we will all take care of each other as a family. this is the latin box machine the band members met him when a site is made hands in venezuela they were part of a program known as the system it was set up by in the one nine hundred seventy s. and used to music to attract thousands of innocent children away from a life in crime and poverty i don't see him for it the message of th

the information provided by local people is collected at the end ceo's office in nairobi along with the data compiled by the ranges. these are all parts of the puzzle that fake witnesses team is not allies in any solid leads have been passed on back to the ranges or reported to police across the region which. began working in wildlife protection a few years ago back in the united states when she realized she needed to be in kenya to tackle the problem at its source really close we can from one of the homes yeah you know describe it we sat down as a family and i said we have an opportunity for an adventure and i said we can and they said what what what and i said well we have an opportunity to move to kenya and save our friends and they were immediately all in one position seems to have paid off the organization says twenty seven possible poachers have been caught in the last fifteen months and elephant numbers are rising again in kenya we can't stop there we haven't we haven't won where we've seen pushing decrease in kenya we've seen it increase and in other places so as a a world conse

that score settling doesn't bring the violence over the border the same basra the old is here and nairobi new cuban president miguel diaz kind of is overseeing what's being dubbed the modernization of socialism cubans away in on a draft constitution which will be rubber stamped by the national assembly before a referendum in february that's in america tennessee newman has more. after six decades the signs of decay in the western hemisphere's only communist country are evident and in recognition that nothing is in more need of modernization cuba's political system ordinary citizens like roberto ramos are being allowed to weigh in on the draft a new constitution of the novels and there's. something interesting is happening in cuba people have the ability to meet to debate publicly not in a physical space but in a virtual space. drill bit of the who runs a tattoo parlor is an activist who's pushing for the new constitution to recognize same sex marriage expanding those still expensive access to internet is allowing him and many others to make demands publicly at. one of the most pressing is

terror group, based in somalia, was responsible for the september 2013 attack on the westgate mall in nairobithat killed 67 people, and for the death of over 140 in the april 2015 attack on kenya's garissa university. nir kalron investigated the links between al shabaab and illicit ivory trade in 2012. kalron: al shabaab was controlling the ports of kismayo, marca, and big parts of mogadishu, including access to the port through its agents. evidence from kenya suggests the local and regional poachers used that access. we'd seen evidence from ports in marca and kismayo of ivory, large stocks of it, and had collected evidence from individuals that testified to having profited from that trade with al shabaab agents. knights: al shabaab did control various ports in somalia where the ivory is being shipped out of, and they would basically charge a tax for anything being shipped out. narrator: al shabaab lies a 2% to 7% tax on ivory that passes through areas they control, making about $250,000 a year from ivory. insurgent groups and armed forces units are not the only poachers. local villagers, who

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those responsible for the tech when i joined by jeremy taylor from the norwegian refugee council in nairobi jamie glad you could make time for us so let's begin with this is women walking over thirty kilometers to food distribution points why is this still happening. this is still happening because the just tickle conditions in which we deliver aid in south sudan are incredibly challenging it's a big country we're talking about almost seven million people require some kind of humanitarian assistance and there is just no way to structure in a country so this means that our resources are stretched incredibly lonely and and for people to reach the sites where it where it is distributed there are long distances and the nature of the conflict in south sudan is that we are finding that people are putting themselves at risk in reaching. now jamie we're talking about nearly two hundred women being sexually allegedly sexually violated any indication who might be behind those attacks we don't have any information on the specific attack. well what we do know is that these sorts of attacks are unfortun

garbage covering an area bigger than thirty football fields just a few kilometers from the center of nairobi every day hundreds of trucks haul trash here from the city. the dump is like a big unorganized recycling center some people like godwin here almost every day. as one of. these and i sift through the garbage because i'm trying to earn a little money. i'm no longer on my own. life and i have a wife and child now and they're waiting for me to come home with milk or bread in the evening i can't go back empty handed. the kenyan capital produces nearly two thousand tons of trash every day. to some iteration department is overwhelmed most of the waste ends up like this in the dumps outside the city. the garbage collectors gather up food plastic paper and scrap metal some of which they sell. they can buy later least it's work there are no jobs to be had these days and a lot of young people from the streets trying to eke out a living here at the dump site if it weren't for the dumpsite these kids would probably have become thieves but they are here. at the end of the day they make about two hu

in nairobi skyscrapers are set against slums that are home to millions of people. david's life on the capital streets began eighteen years ago when he was twelve he says it's a fight for survival and. i had been away from school because of the horrible teachers who beat us all the time i gave up and came to the states have been ever since. after years of political unrest kenya's economic outlook is said to be brighter the latest government figures suggest poverty is down but they might not tell the whole story volunteers working with underprivileged communities say that from their vantage point the reality on the ground looks very different and that the number of kenyans who are homeless kids and adults might actually be going up. economic migration from rural areas or rising cost of living and overall lack of opportunities aid groups say these kinds of things mean entire families are ending up on the streets and a new generation of kenyans is being born into poverty. some attempts are being made to improve literacy among children. the idea is with their heads in b