At Mombasa station, however, the overnight train to Nairobi is already several hours late.
Here, residents and religious leaders speak of a charismatic young Kenyan Sheikh that arrived from Mombasa.
The Alabama arrived Saturday in Mombasa, along with an 18-person armed security detail on board.
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The coffee flows freely, accompanied by halwa, a traditional sweet which rekindles childhood memories of Mombasa.
Mombasa embraces diversity and is distinctively different compared to the rest of the country.
The following day I departed Nairobi bound for the Indian Ocean coast, riding the slow, winding train to Mombasa.
He also imported commodities like sugar and cigarettes from traders at the Mombasa ports.
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Even now Chinese porcelain pieces are uncovered during excavations in ancient trading cities like Zanzibar and Mombasa.
Whether it is in Beirut or Buenos Aires, Mumbai or Mombasa, people have been running businesses forever.
Associated Press reporters Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda, and Jason Straziuso in Mombasa, Kenya, contributed to this report.
In 2002, al-Qaeda-linked militants bombed an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, killing 18 people.
"The MV Action was released by pirates, " said Andrew Mwangura, head of the Seafarers Assistance Program in Mombasa, Kenya.
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Hundreds of American businessmen have worked in American companies that have built their regional headquarters in Nairobi or Mombasa.
Within minutes, the airliner taking off from the Mombasa airport with 271 aboard was brushed by two shoulder-fired missiles.
It is known as the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) and it is calling on voters to boycott the election.
The fading black and white picture is a reminder of the shifts in colonial control that Mombasa has witnessed.
The group the Mombasa Republican Council had threatened election day attacks.
Authorities flew in an additional 400 police officers to Mombasa to increase security.
Afterward, the Captain Maslov was able to escape the pirates by "maneuvering, " and continued to Mombasa, the ministry said.
The ivory, weighing about two tonnes, had been labelled as decorating stones, the head of operations at Mombasa port said.
"It is better managed than the 2007 elections, " said Judith Egesa, 24, who works at a food shop in Mombasa.
They have been circulating in Kimusu, home to Prime Minister and presidential contender Raila Odinga, and the coastal city of Mombasa.
Ten Kenyans and three Israelis were killed when three suicide bombers detonated a car bomb outside the Paradise hotel in Mombasa.
The 5, 000-acre (2, 011-hectare) site was a ranch to the south-east of Nairobi on the way to the port city of Mombasa.
Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, told Reuters news agency it is UK-owned but operated by Italians.
We watched lions eat zebras in the Serengeti, slept in the Islamic quarter of Mombasa, Kenya, and in tents in Ethiopian hills.
The two Iranians arrived in Kenya on 12 June last year and travelled to Mombasa to pick up the powerful explosive RDX.
Mombasa, on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, is a popular destination for foreign visitors and the hotel was frequented mainly by Israeli tourists.
The attack sparked a fire aboard the Captain Maslov, which was heading from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Mombasa, Kenya, the ministry said.
He also faced charges before a Kenyan court for planning terror attacks in Mombasa, Kenya's second-largest city and a popular tourist destination.
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