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Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho (middle), flanked by among others the Jomvu MP Twalib Badi, his County Executive Committee Member in charge of Tourism Joab Tumbo and other tourism stakeholders joins locals in a procession that started at the Tusks along Moi avenue on Friday, 14th August,2015 evening. [PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]
MOMBASA: Massive fireworks, traditional dances from Kenyan and foreign troupes and nightlong partying marked the start of the second Mombasa International Cultural Festival in Mombasa on Friday evening.
The much publicised annual festival lived to its billing before thousands of visitors and local residents when the coastal town burst into life, lights and massive celebration of cultures and diversity, which will last ten days, putting to shame recent reports of insecurity on the Kenyan coast.
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