Hi, friends and colleagues living in and operating out of mombasa are operating as normal. We're operating there daily as normal too. Those living there are just staying clear of trouble areas, when they occur, and these are well known and well contained by police. Right now it's business as normal. More demonstrations are planned in Nairobi next week and presumably fellow looters, sorry, demonstrators in mombasa will follow suit, but again these will be known about. North coast hotels haven't been affected or targeted, other than losing all their business for the forseeable future, again. I'm based in Nairobi operating out of JKIA and we just phoned around to check on roads/areas affected, and avoided them. Again, business as normal at the moment. I wouldn't worry, but check with your MBA ground staff on the day, more for access to the airport than personal safety. Violence is being meted out against specific groups sadly. Once in the hotel you wouldn't know there was a problem apart from being very quiet.
Meanwhile our so called leaders continue to drag our country down day by day in a battle of the megalomaniacs. Hundreds of lives tragically lost, hundreds of thousands displaced with nowhere to go. Tourism collapsing, business loss estimated at a billion USD so far, the list is endless. Neither side seemingly aware of the tragedy, and all in the name of politics. Too depressing for words.
5Y