Coastweek Newspaper Vol 3 No 36 (September 5-11,1980)

Abstract

Inside this issue: Mayor stoms at inhuman actions: As the sensitive issue of squatters reared its ugly face in Mombasa the Mayor Council Rajab Sumba has assured the public that his Council “may never condone nor undertake wrongful demolition of people’s houses, Lets save the nyali bridge: The announcement that the old Nyali Bridge closes at the end of September has shocked many residents who regard this nearly 50-year-old pontoon bridge-one of the largest floating bridges in the world -as not only a great attraction but a part of the history and development of the coast, Islamic mass media forming new agency: Mombasa (K.N.A.)-The first International Islamic Mass Media Conference that recently ended in the Indonesian capital of Jarkata has resolved to form a non -government Islamic news agency to be based in Mecca-Saudi Arabia -under the direction of the Muslim world league (Rabita) also based in Saudi Arabia, Tourism minister on future trends: This the popularity of the Kenya Coast as a tourist paradise that the low season has virtually disappeared and with it has come an urgent need for more hotel beds, A long memory of the bridge: With eleven days to go the closing of the pontoon bridge, several people have asked if a any ceremony or farewell party is planned to mark the end of this historic connection between Mombasa and the north coast, Kenyans make a name on eye of the wind: Barack Wasuna (20-years-old and from the Limuru Boys Center) and Mwinyi Japan (23-years-old and a ship’s officer) are the two Kenyans ‘Young Explorers’ who are presently on board the Eye of the Wind with the two year-round -the -world expedition, ‘Operation Drake’.