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Reporter’s Journal part V: Snapshots of Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | August 04, 2009

The World’s Andrea Crossan recently met up with Kenyan artist Solomon Muyundo, also known as Solo 7. Muyundo is famous in his native Kibera, a huge slum in Nairobi. He’s a graffiti ...
Disease Detectives in Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | July 26, 2009

The World Health Organization reported that the H1N1 swine flu virus has now sickened just shy of 60,000 people. That’s the number of confirmed cases worldwide. Of those, just five are ...
Where AIDS is a family affair

Dante Ramos | Kenya | June 29, 2009

Kogelo, Kenya -- Accompanied by two HIV counselors, we left the Kogelo Dispensary, walked down a dirt road for a little while, and then veered off down a path that twists among trees and ...
Reporter’s Journal part III: Snapshots of Kenya

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | June 25, 2009

Nairobi by Matatu After a few days in Laikipia, me and my fellow International Reporting Project journalists are back in Nairobi. I feel like I have spent so much time in off-road ...
Incubating trouble in Kenya

Dante Ramos | Kenya | June 18, 2009

THE FOUNTAIN of Knowledge at the University of Nairobi is a monument to the optimism of the 1960s, when Kenya was gaining independence from British rule and the path to development and ...

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 ...