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Best Places to Visit in Kenya in 2026: 15 Destinations Worth Exploring

https://wanderwithazazi.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/best-places-to-visit-in-kenya-in-2026/

As #EastAfrica’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods

By ALLAN OLINGO, July 5, 2026 at 10:36 pm

MALINDI, #Kenya (AP) — "The unfinished restaurant is still little more than concrete walls and wooden beams. As her daughter sweeps away the last piles of sand, 54-year-old Nuru Mohammed directs women hanging fishing nets to serve as decor. In a few days, the beachside restaurant on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast will open, offering another way to earn a living.

" 'For us women, this is hope,' says Mohammed, who, for most of her life, was one of the few fisherwomen in Malindi, a town northeast of the port city of #Mombasa. 'It will help support many families that have depended on the ocean for decades.'

"Across East Africa’s coast, fisherfolk are increasingly turning to tourism, #EcosystemRestoration and other conservation-based businesses, reinventing their relationship with the sea as #ClimateChange, #overfishing and declining ocean health threaten their livelihoods.

"In Kenya, women are turning restored #MangroveForests into sources of income through #beekeeping and #ecotourism. In #Tanzania’s #Zanzibar archipelago, fishing communities are protecting #CoralReefs through locally managed closures. In #Mozambique, #SeaGrassRestoration is creating jobs while reviving marine habitats. Together, these efforts are redefining resilience, not as leaving the ocean behind, but as restoring it while building enduring livelihoods.

" 'Communities that depend on the ocean are also its best stewards,' said Andreane Martel, project director for a conservation program dubbed #ReSea. 'When local people, especially women, lead conservation, they protect #biodiversity while creating more resilient and inclusive livelihoods.' "

Read more:
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/as-east-africas-oceans-change-coastal-women-build-new-livelihoods/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/LTBNs

#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateResilience #OceansAreLife #Stewardship

#Stained #beauty

#Glass

sun, plants and fish

Late for #FensterFreitag
#CowrieShells #Hotel
#Shanzu #Mombasa #Kenya

#LGBTQ #rights #group #sues #Kenya #policechief over #antigay #protests.

#Mombasa #demonstrations began after #Court #ruling that allowed #NGO to #register.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Kenya #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/10/03/lgbtq-rights-group-sues-kenya-police-chief-over-anti-gay-protests/

#umrah done, Heading to #Nairobi from #makkah for a couple days before going home to #LA

No time to visit #Mombasa again on this trip, alas
Love that #polepole vibe

Hey #BlackMastodon happy #blackfriday !