I was in Lome', Togo when the news of bin Laden's death was announced. Actually, I heard it the next morning on CNN International. Was odd to be away from the US when this happened and may have increased my very mixed feelings.
A sample of how the news of bin Laden's death is being reported here:
Daily Guide (Ghana's second largest paper): "News about the stealth operation in which Pakistani authorities collaborated with their US counterparts was broken by a visibly-excited President Barack Obama in the wee hours of the night in the US, a development which reports indicate could shore his waning political fortunes."
From allAfrica.com: "Is the death of the terror mastermind necessarily going to lead to safer travel and tourism or will it lead to heightened security alerts and more thorough screening? Kenyans have never forgotten that in 1998, al Qaeda terrorists, who were targeting the American embassy in Nairobi, killed over 250 Kenyans -- and 12 Americans -- in what remains the country's worst terror attack."
The other large dailies and radio sites are using BBC or Al Jazeera coverage.
A Ghanaian colleague asked me today if I was "rejoicing" in bin Laden's death. He shared my fear that there might be reprisals but also a general sense that the world is better off without bin Laden in it. No other comments from folks. Life goes on here, as it did before September 2011.
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