When a crack unit of Kenyan narco cops raided a Mombasa villa in November, after an eight-month undercover US investigation, it marked a step change in Africa's fight against drug trafficking. The drugs sting was a first in East Africa. Four men were arrested: two sons of a murdered Kenyan drug lord, a convicted Indian trafficker with a faded Bollywood star wife and a bigtime Indian Ocean transporter from Pakistan known as "Old Man".
East Africa's biggest port inthe Kenyan city of Mombasa said on Saturday it had dismissed 27workers it believed were behind a strike this week thatparalysed operations for two days and cost the