Nairobi’s fast resembling a Hollywood spy-thriller movie location, with armed masked men bundling helpless victims into waiting cars that whisk them away to unknown places.
It’s prompted US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Sen. Jim Risch to raise concerns over Kenya’s violation of human rights and rule of law, especially concerning transnational repression. The backlash follows the dramatic abduction of longtime Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye from a Nairobi suburb by alleged intelligence operatives on 16 November. Kenyan officials have denied knowledge of, or participation in, the operation.
It’s not the first time trans-national abductions have taken place in Nairobi – or that foreign political figures have come undone there. Here’s a look back.
SOURCES:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwg5n0y0lo
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/the-day-israeli-commandos-raided-nairobi-625462