Sentence examples for mombasa from inspiring English sources
proper noun
The second-largest city in Kenya.
After several years in hiding, including a stint teaching under an alias at an Islamist school in Lamu, off Kenya's coast, he is thought to have planned an attack on a hotel in Mombasa in 2002, which killed 15 people, along with a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger aircraft at Mombasa airport.
shulamit-diving.com Andrew Ramsey The wildlife underwater around Mombasa is as breathtaking as on a land safari, with regular sightings of sharks and turtles over miles of coral reef.
Vuma caverns, an hour north of Mombasa by dive boat with Buccaneer Diving, has exceptional wall diving and possible appearances by dolphins or manta rays.
With just three hours' time difference, Mombasa is a perfect escape from Britain for a week of world-class winter diving.
A trans-Africa highway should eventually run from Mombasa through Kenya and Uganda and even across Congo to the Atlantic.Danger: exploding light-bulbsAgainst this hopeful backdrop, grave worries persist.
Nairobi's traffic is still in a perpetual jam, but work on a ring road is under way and there are plans to build a new railway line from Mombasa to Nairobi, besides revamping the one that goes on to Uganda.
The initial 609km (378-mile) section from the port in Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi, was started last month and is expected to be completed in 2017.
But the one that failed two shoulder-fired Strella missiles that just missed a full Israeli charter plane taking off from Mombasa brought Israel face to face with mega-terror.Al-Qaeda, in an Internet message, claimed credit this week for the terrorism.
A week earlier, a radical Muslim cleric known as Makaburi, who had encouraged young men to join the Shabab, was shot dead outside a court in Mombasa, Kenya's port city.
These include a secessionist movement, the Mombasa Republican Council, which has called for a poll boycott.
Clashes also took place near the capital, Sana'a.Abubakar Sheikh Ibrahim Shariff, a radical Muslim preacher, also known as "Makaburi", meaning graveyard in Swahili, was shot dead by unidentified men in Mombasa, Kenya's port city.
