Kenya

Knight Fellow visits Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Kenya

Nairobi Star reporter Wacui Makori interviews a parent at Maai Mahiu as children line up for free "mandazi" or doughnuts.

Jan 292009

Explosion rocks newspaper office -- and a journalist's instinct kicks in

Editors Note: Fire in downtown Nairobi causes scare.The first time the lights went out during this morning’s news meeting, it was just a minor annoyance. Ditto the second time. After all, at Nation Media Group headquarters in the heart of downtown Nairobi, you can expect a powerful generator to kick in quickly whenever there’s a power outage. It’s already happened several times during my six-month tenure as a Knight Health Journalism Fellow based at the Nation Centre.