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Reporter’s Journal part II: Snapshots of Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | June 16, 2009

I’m The World’s Andrea Crossan, and I’m currently criss-crossing Kenya with 11 other journalists. We’re part of the International Reporting Project. In my first entry, I visited ...
Reporter’s Journal: Snapshots of Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | June 11, 2009

My name is Andrea Crossan, and I’m a producer here at The World. As you can see, though, I’m not currently in Boston. I’m in Kenya for two weeks with the International Reporting ...
CNN video: Obama’s grandmother in the spotlight

Linda Roth | Kenya | June 10, 2009

Embedded video from CNN Video While traveling in Kenya with a dozen U.S. journalists, CNN producer Linda Roth had the opportunity to meet President Obama’s grandmother and learn ...
Prime Minister Says Kenyan Politics ‘Are Not Ethnic’

Stephanie Hanson | Kenya | June 09, 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya-- Following disputed presidential elections in late 2007, Kenya exploded into ethnic-based violence. In February 2008, international mediators brokered a power-sharing ...
Obama’s gran living in spotlight

Linda Roth | Kenya | June 08, 2009

KOGELO, Kenya (CNN) -- Once Barack Obama started out on the campaign trail to win the U.S. presidency another route has become well-trodden -- to his grandmother's home in Kenya. Sarah ...

A Disease of the Poor

by Stephanie Hanson | August 07, 2009

By 10 am, the women are lined up at Siaya District Hospital, row after row, each one with a sick child nestled in her arms and a look of resolve on her face. Some of them have walked for ...
Sarah Obama and more…

by Monica Richardson | June 04, 2009

I'm back on... My apologies to those of you who have been logging on only to find that I have not logged on. Internet service has been up and down here. Around the area, you find men ...
An Obama family reunion in the works?

by Miriam Pepper | June 03, 2009

Miriam Pepper is in Kenya on a two-week fellowship with the International Reporting Project of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She posts today from the family ...
Kenya Today

by Miriam Pepper | June 01, 2009

NAIROBI: The world's largest slum is here, Kibera, home to 1.2 million mostly young Kenyans, about one third of Nairobi's population. Today was a national holiday, marking the beginning ...
I’ve landed…

by Monica Richardson | May 31, 2009

Down to business The team of editors with the International Reporting Project leave from D.C. Dulles Airport Saturday and arrive in London about 7 a.m. Sunday, we then head to Kenya. The ...