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Lamu, Kenya
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The refinery will have a 1000MW power plant same size almost as the Lamu coal plant. And most likely will be form Patrick’e which is worse than coal. Would love your take on this….
1/2 Lamu's Refinery Is Not Tourism's Enemy. It Is Tourism's Biggest Opportunity in a Generation.
Tomorrow, His Excellency President William Samoei Ruto @WilliamsRuto and Alhaji Aliko Dangote Dangote @AlikoDangote Industries will break ground on the Dangote East Africa Refinery in Lamu. Before the ribbon is even cut, a familiar chorus has already begun: the refinery will kill Lamu tourism, smoke will choke the dhows, and the tourists will flee.
I have spent more than 30 years in this industry. I have watched Kenyan tourism survive terror alerts, travel advisories, pandemics and politics. Let me say this plainly: this refinery is not a threat to tourism in Lamu. It is the single greatest opportunity our coastal hospitality sector has been handed in a generation.
✅️First, understand the size of Lamu
Lamu County covers more than 6,000 square kilometres. That is nearly a quarter of the entire Republic of Rwanda, and more than eight times the size of Singapore. Singapore fits a global financial centre, one of the world's busiest ports, heavy petrochemical industry on Jurong Island and a world-class tourism economy into a fraction of Lamu's land mass. Nobody cancels a holiday to Sentosa because there is a refinery down the coast.
The refinery sits on the mainland, near the new port at Kililana. Lamu Old Town, Shela, Manda and the archipelago that the world loves remain exactly what they are: a UNESCO World Heritage Site and some of the most beautiful island coastline on the Indian Ocean. Industry and heritage can coexist when there is space and planning. Lamu has both.
✅️Second, follow the money into the hotels
This is a $16 billion project, over Ksh 2 trillion, expected to take about three years to build and to create some 60,000 jobs. Think about what that means for anyone who owns a bed in Lamu, Malindi or Watamu.
Engineers, project managers, financiers, consultants, contractors, auditors, insurers, government delegations and regional investors will be travelling to Lamu every week for years. They need rooms. They need restaurants. They need transfers, boats, laundry, meeting rooms and weekend escapes. This is corporate business, and corporate business is the most reliable income a hotelier can have. It fills rooms on a wet Tuesday in May, not just on a sunny Saturday in December.
For years, Lamu hoteliers have lived and died by the leisure season. Corporate demand will flatten that seasonality. Occupancy in the low months, the very months that bleed our properties, will rise.
✅️Third, MICE is coming, Where industry goes, meetings follow. Suppliers will hold conferences. Regional energy ministers will convene. Investors will want to see the site. Training programmes will run for thousands of new workers. Product launches, board retreats and incentive trips will follow the money.
Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions is the highest-yielding segment in global tourism. A MICE delegate spends far more per day than a leisure traveller. Lamu, with its culture, cuisine and island charm, can become the place where East Africa's energy sector does business by day and unwinds at sunset in a dhow. That is a product no other refinery town on earth can offer.
✅️ Fourth, infrastructure changes everything
The biggest obstacle to Lamu tourism has never been oil. It has been access. Expensive flights, limited routes, and roads that have tested the patience of every tour operator I know.
A project of this scale does not happen without roads, reliable power, water, telecoms, an upgraded airport and more frequent flights. Every one of those investments benefits the tourist. A guest who can fly in easily, stay connected and move safely is a guest who comes back and tells his friends.
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So only one team from Africa was eliminated. I hope that teaches you something for those who justify the inequality in FIFA team representation from Africa claiming the sport isn’t developed enough on the continent!
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Omanis working overtime to rewrite Swahili history and portray themselves as “founders” of the civilization. But we have the internet now and can see truth ourselves. No offline meetings and conferences will change the facts. Until the lion learns to tell his tale…
Due to Ruto’s reckless Ebola proposal with Trump, tourists are cancelling trips. Even if the deal doesn’t pass, the damage is done as Kenya is now right next to Ebola in net search results. Many now wrongly assume the centre is being built here because we have Ebola yet we don’t!
Happenned to me. Grateful I managed to recover it but it was a long process. I assume the person it was assigned to realised that it was reassigned after bombardment of random calls. So I waited for 6 months making sure it was inactive and asked safaricom for it back
A Kenyan by the name Elias Wekesa has taken Safaricom to court, and every Kenyan should pay attention.
He says Safaricom deactivated his line after it stayed inactive for a few months, then reassigned it to another person.
When he tried using it again, he was met with a shock.
The number was gone.
Worse, he says he could no longer receive OTPs from his bank and other platforms tied to that number.
This case matters because it touches every Kenyan.
Because your phone number is no longer just a number.
It is tied to your bank account.
Your email.
Your work accounts.
Your private life.
The moment that number is handed to someone else, the risks begin.
OTPs can go elsewhere.
Recovery codes can land in another person’s hands.
Account alerts can reach a stranger.
That person is not just holding a SIM card.
They may be holding access to parts of your digital life.
And if they have bad intentions, the damage can be immediate.
And for families who have lost loved ones, it cuts even deeper.
A parent’s number.
A sibling’s number.
A loved one’s number.
One day, it holds memories.
The next day, it belongs to a stranger.
This is why Safaricom must be forced to create stronger safeguards before reassigning numbers.
Because in today’s world, a phone number is not disposable.
It is identity.
And identity should never be reassigned without protection.
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All based on a dream from less than 100 years ago that gives them more right to the land than factual information form displaced Palestinians. This is messed up!
FYI, these jeets think they’re a lost tribe of the Jews because their tribal elder had a dream that Israel was their land. This somehow gives them a greater right to land than the Palestinians who have lived there for thousands of years.
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Seems more like a false flag. By you know who. They are grasping for reasons to drag Turkey into this
Three dead in a shooting outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. Three people have been killed and two police officers injured in a gunfire incident near the the Israeli consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, according to Turkey’s media reports.
Attackers have been identified. Turkish authorities said: “one had links to a group that exploits religion”, while another attacker had a prior drug-related record. Turkey called it a provocation. An interesting incident. It’s still unclear whether the attack was specifically targeting the Israeli consulate or something else. However, the key point is that the consulate had been vacated for quite some time. I don’t see why would anyone attack an empty consulate.
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Oman noticeably abstained as well. The Arab country most responsible for the slave a trade and stealing of resources in East Africa so no suprise there.
BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The three countries voting against it?
🇺🇸 USA
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷 Argentina
Nearly all of Europe abstained.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Context: the resolution wasn’t just a condemnation of the slave trade; it also called for reparations and described slavery as “the gravest crime against humanity,” which some countries rejected as creating a hierarchy of crimes (over genocide, etc.).
wfsb.com/2026/03/25/un-…
bbc.com/news/articles/…
gov.uk/government/spe…
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The secretary of defense of the US ladies and gentlemen…. Yet of course we believe they want to “liberate” and bring democracy to the middle east
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talking in 2018 about the 'miracle' of reconstructing the 3rd Temple of Solomon, the place where the Antichrist will be worshiped according to our Orthodox Christian faith.
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Then we have our current puppet in chief who didn’t condemn when Amerikkka striked a school of young girls 🙄.
Exactly 50yrs ago today, President Kenyatta severed ties with Israel saying “Occupation of land by force is not only against the UN Charter, but also against the national principles of Kenya”. #FreePalestine
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I wish they didn’t have the laughing track because this isn’t funny at all. But worth sharing to see the depth of corruption in Kenya
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Getting excited and laughing about profiting from people’s death is the lowest of the low
"The other countries that were attacked throughout the Gulf, they don't have (air defense and alerts)... The Israeli security systems in the coming years will be very very busy selling weapon systems"
Brig. Gen. (Res) Erez Winner, one of the architects of the genocide in Gaza and a West Bank settler, explains the "benefits" of Israel's collaborator states getting hit. Everyone laughs.
i24 News host Sharon Magal then explains where the production lines could be set up: "In India. We took all of India."
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War monger. Interesting the same countries that were mediating peace talks between them as Palestine and Ukraine and Russia are the ones who are dangerous. They basically don’t want peace
Israel’s former PM Naftali Bennett a few days ago: ‘Turkey is the new Iran’
They’re not going to stop at Tehran. Israel is a threat to the entire Middle East.
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I imagine this is how colonisers have always taken over land that doesnt belong to them
