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Members of the search and rescue team carry dismembered parts of passengers bodies at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
ASSOCIATED PRESS

The racist reaction to the Ethiopian Airlines crash was all too predictable

Once again, Africans have been reminded that some deaths, and thus lives, are more important than others

  • Patrick Gathara
4 min read
Kenyan special forces responded to al-Shabab’s attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi on January 15. (Simon Maina/AFP)
AL QAEDA

Kenya suffers Somali blowback

Kenya said it invaded Somalia to protect its citizens, but the attack in Nairobi this week shows this has failed

  • Patrick Gathara
4 min read