Posts Tagged ‘nkurunziza’
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 [...]
Whither democracy in Burundi?
I’m personally bummed about the election debacle in Burundi. As I was flying from Cameroon to Nairobi, the opposition parties pulled out of the upcoming presidential election, dashing my dreams of an article that went something like, “The little country you’ve never heard of may be Africa’s best case study in democracy.” Everyone was excited [...]
This week in African elections…
There aren’t any. To be fair, only one of the three I’m thinking about is even supposed to have happened. But the other two are getting dicey. Let’s start with Rwanda, because it’s all over the news. I’m not there at the moment, but that never stops the New York Times from writing vague stories [...]
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