There are times when you feel useless. Those times when you realize that it could have been you, but it is not, and you realize that sometime, randomness is what makes the difference. The Westgate situation is one of those situations.
So, while I am in Italy and I feel as useless as I could possibly feel, I need to occupy my time not to get crazy. And this blogpost is what I can do, little and maybe not that useful, but still something that is helping me to be up to date on the situation.
I am going to keep adding information and sources using this Google doc. Please, feel free to add there any other relevant source that you are using.
Kenyan Police: https://twitter.com/PoliceKE
RedCross: https://twitter.com/KenyaRedCross
The Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre: https://twitter.com/NDOCKenya
Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government in The Office of the President: https://twitter.com/InteriorKE
Kenya MissingPersons, Official account for Kenya Missing and Unidentified Persons: https://twitter.com/MissingKenyans
US Embassy in NBO: https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKenya
Kenyatta twitter account : https://twitter.com/UKenyatta
Twitter (local media)
RadioFM: https://twitter.com/CapitalFM_kenya
Citizens TV News: https://twitter.com/CitizenTVNews
Daily nation: https://twitter.com/dailynation
NTV Kenya: https://twitter.com/ntvkenya
The Standard Digital: https://twitter.com/StandardKenya
Twitter (Individual People)
Daniel Howden, Contributor to The Economist. Co-Producer of Stolen Seas doc on Somali piracy: @howden_africa
Robyn Kriel: eNCA East Africa Bureau Chief. FCA East Africa co-chair. Zimbabwean/South African: @robynleekriel
Robert Nagila: Reporter – CCTV AFRICA: @Rnagila
Nicole Sobecki : reporter – AFP : @nicolesobecki
Ohaga Ohaga: Journalist/Socialist/Realist/Idealist/Writer/Blogger. Communications Officer for a National NGO: @ohagaohaga
Hashtags
#WestgateAttack, #WestagateMall, #WeAreOne, #westgateshootout #kenya #Nairobi, #Westgate. #WestgatemallAttack
Westgate Attack: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westgate-Attacks
Westgate Mall Attack Kenya: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westgate-Mall-Attacks-Kenya
Official **verified** information
Kenya Red Cross: https://www.kenyaredcross.org
Phone services
Hot Line: +254714820219
The KRCS Emergency Operation Centre: 1199, 0700395395, 0738395395
Phone donations:
M-PESA No. 848484
(thanks to Joseph Richard Pollack from the SBTF for the help in compiling this)
I am still spooked by our meal there at the ArtCaffe. It was the last dinner I had in Nairobi.