Posts Tagged ‘bujumbura’
America’s War, Africa’s body bags: Guest post from Uganda
In the wake of the Kampala bombings, I’ve been exchanging emails with my friend and colleague Allan Brian Ssenyonga. Allan is a Ugandan freelance journalist based in Kigali, and a guy whose insatiable desire to understand history, politics, culture and place has provided me with invaluable context in the Great Lakes over the years. In [...]
Don’t look here for good news
Al Shabaab bombs Kampala threatens Bujumbura, which now feels like my second home. Journalists and political candidates are turning up dead in Rwanda. New fighting by the same old freaking people in eastern Congo sent 70,000 more people running. Meanwhile, Burundi apparently still can’t get its act together, and it’s dragged the East African Community into [...]
An African strongman, a rockstar journalist, and an EU worker with a dopey haircut all walk into a bar…
I wrote this for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and while posting it in its entirety here is going to bite into my SEO rating, I figure there aren’t a whole lot of people who can overtake me in a Google search for “jina moore.” And this, alas, is no variety show. I wrote [...]
Burundi’s elections, from inside the polls
Here’s an audio-visual look at Burundi’s presidential poll, from inside one rural voting station, which I produced for my Pulitzer Center project “Beyond Peace Deals.” If I had had the luxuries of the US, like great bandwidth and the absence of grenades going off behind one’s hotel the night of a presidential election, this would [...]
If you don’t blog for awhile, do you disappear?
I’ve been on a manic reporting binge for the last few weeks, so I haven’t had time to keep up the blogging. Or the tweeting. Or with Facebook. I am therefore no longer certain of my continued existence. And it turns out, I swear, I can’t even see myself in the mirror any more. I [...]
A comparative guidebook to grenades in Great Lakes capital cities
It almost seems like you can’t hold elections without a few grenade explosions in this part of the world. Grenade explosions made international news in late winter and early spring in Rwanda. They injured more people than they killed, and based on my exposure to grenades, which is action movies, the numbers of both seemed [...]
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