by Drew Boyd | Jan 2, 2014 | General News, Kenya
December was notable for a rise in violence along Kenya’s northern border. Moyale District and Wajir County are witnessing a predicted increase in violence which has driven thousands out of the region. Nairobi and Mombasa continue to be a hotbed of violence both...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Nov 29, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Earlier this week, we returned from our first visit to Kenya since initiating the Tana Delta Misinformation Project last month. Abhishek, John, and I made a brief planning visit to get things started and I want to share a quick update with everyone following our...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Nov 4, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Today I have the exciting task of announcing the biggest milestone in the Sentinel Project’s history as an organization so far. Beginning immediately, we are launching a two-year field project in the Tana Delta region of Kenya together with our partners at iHub...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 9, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project has expanded its research focus from solely the Tana River Delta region of Kenya to the entirety of Kenya in order to more accurately depict and assess the complex ethnic, economic and political conditions within the nation. This report identifies...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 8, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
This report summarizes the findings of a Sentinel Project field team which visited the Tana Delta region of Kenya in early 2013. The team conducted a survey related to a series of ethnic massacres which occurred between August 2012 and January 2013. Their report...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 25, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 21, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
At the end of February a small team from the Sentinel Project visited the Tana River District of eastern Kenya as part of our general election observation mission in the country. I had the privilege of serving on that team and want to outline here some of what we did,...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 12, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Last week, on March 4, Kenyans turned out in record numbers to vote for a variety of candidates ranging from local council representatives to the president. Naturally, most attention – including that of the international community – was turned towards the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 11, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
If you’ve been following the Sentinel Project’s social media updates recently, you’ll know that we just concluded our first-ever field work by sending a small team to Kenya, which was the second situation of concern (SOC) that we started monitoring....
by Sentinel Project | Nov 22, 2012 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project has updated its annual assessment on the risk of genocide in Kenya and has maintained Kenya as a situation of concern with the “High” risk rating established in 2011. Our teams of analysts have revised the original report to reflect recent...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Oct 1, 2011 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements
You might recall that a few weeks ago we were rallying support (and your votes) for our submission to the International Telecommunications Union conference, ITU Telecom World 2011. Well, thanks to your support I have some really exciting news to share because the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 18, 2011 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project needs your help! We recently entered a contest at ITU Telecom World 2011, which is sponsored by the United Nations to bring together telecom industry players, government heads, and digital innovators. One of our team members, Abhishek Bhatnagar,...
