Kenya, current travelers info and safety issues?

Question

Specifically the city of Mombassa, and Kenya generally. Any tips on how to stay safe and still see some of the area?

Answer 1

I can't tell you much about the current state- I visited Mombasa about 4 years ago. I know that crime has significally risen, though.
I stayed on Diani Beach and traveled into town on several occasions. It was SO beautiful and the people were great. I'd go back in a second.
One word of caution, b/c it's on the coast mosquitoes are everywhere. We covered up head to toe plus used repellent and my boyfriend ended up with malaria. He was bit 1 time on his pinky finger and that was enough to infect him.
Save travels!

Answer 2

This article sheds some light. Tribal tensions have simmered since multiparty elections were reintroduced in 1992 and the country's more than 40 tribes began competing at the polls for political power and resources. Much of the resentment has been directed at Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, the largest ethnic group, seen by others as having dominated politics and business for decades. Kikuyus account for 22% of the East African nation's 37 million population. Voting in Kenya tends to run along tribal lines, but the hard-fought race between Kibaki and Odinga, a Luo, has exacerbated the tensions. Odinga won the support of the Luos and several other tribes that felt it was their turn to hold power. After Kibaki was sworn in, thousands of angry Luo youths poured into the streets, burning Kikuyu-owned businesses and beating up Kikuyus. In Eldoret, where there are few Luos, the violence for the most part has been between members of the Kalenjin tribe, which backed Odinga, and the Kikuyus who voted for Kibaki. The city is situated in the fertile Rift Valley, an ethnically mixed area where tribal tensions run high and often turn violent during election campaigns. Much of the preelection violence seen in recent months occurred in the Rift Valley. BRIAN K The world is asleep in bed The Muslim World is in bed too, not sleeping multiplying...

Answer 3

Visit CIA website and find out what they say and reccommend to do for Kenya.

All the best!/