Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and three others in a hail of bullets in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, a year after the imam's predecessor was killed in the same manner and on the same road and nearly the same spot.
P.K. Stowers takes the scenic route to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent.
When Ohio resident Bill Haynes heard about the shooting at Westgate Mall by Islamic extremist gunmen last month, he considered cancelling his upcoming 17-day safari to Kenya and Tanzania.
The stench of rotting elephant carcasses hangs in the air in western Zimbabwe, where wildlife officials say at least 91 elephants were poisoned with cyanide by poachers who hack off the tusks for the lucrative illegal ivory market.
Poorly paid Kenyan security forces that moved in to control an emergency are being accused of robbing the very property they were supposed to protect.