Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Mark Bellamy, a senior fellow with the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the St. Petersburg Times, "Why a Stable Kenya Benefits U.S."
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Mark Bellamy, a senior fellow with the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the St. Petersburg Times, "Why a Stable Kenya Benefits U.S."
If you're wondering why you should care about the postelection violence in Kenya, just look at a map.
Kenya may be a long way from the United States, but it's right next door to Somalia, a Muslim country and a failed state if ever there was one. And Somalia is just across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen, where al-Qaida bombed the USS Cole in 2000, killing 17 American sailors. And Yemen borders Saudi Arabia, home to most of the hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11. [...]
A close American ally, "Kenya has been an oasis of stability in a very volatile region," says Mark Bellamy, U.S. ambassador to Nairobi from 2003 to 2006. "It has really been on a path that we would like to encourage other countries to follow - up to now." Read the article
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