In March 1896, the 24th (Baluchistan) (Duchess of Connaught’s Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry (now 6th Battalion The Baloch Regiment of Pakistan Army) under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Astley Pearson was ordered to Mombassa to restore order.
FilmAid currently works in Kenya, in the large refugee camps of Dadaab and Kakuma as well as informal settlements in Nairobi and Mombassa, with Burmese refugees in Thailand and also in Haiti.
In 2011, Jérôme Catz is curating the exhibition Les Enfants Terribles, which brings together twelve of the most important artists in the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist movements from around the world, featuring Todd Schorr, Robert Williams, Ray Caesar, Jeff Soto, Nicolas Thomas, Caia Koopman, Victor Castillo, Reg Mombassa, Odö, Naoto Hattori, Joe Sorren and Robert Crumb.
At the zenith of its power in the 15th century, the Kilwa Sultanate owned or claimed overlordship over the mainland cities of Malindi, Inhambane and Sofala and the island-states of Mombassa, Pemba, Zanzibar, Mafia, Comoro and Mozambique (plus numerous smaller places) - essentially what is now often referred to as the "Swahili Coast".