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Jeff Koinange
Jeff Koinange is CNN's Africa correspondent working bureaus in Johannesburg and Lagos, as well as with the network's partners across the continent. In this position, Koinange leads CNN's coverage of Africa.
Koinange was previously the bureau chief in Lagos, where he was responsible for coordinating all news output from West Africa and also for covering events from throughout the rest of the African continent. Since Joining CNN in 2001, he has reported on news events throughout Africa and the Middle East for the international news network.
One of the major stories that Koinange has covered is the post-war insurgency, reconstruction and the historic 2005 elections in Iraq. He was also in strife-torn Darfur in Western Sudan for the visits of US Secretary of State, Colin Powell and UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan in 2004.
News events covered by Koinange in 2004 included the announcement in Morocco by the world football authority, FIFA that South Africa would be the continent’s first host of the World Cup. Koinange also spent a month in Rwanda during the commemoration of the country’s ten-year anniversary of the genocide that killed up to a million people in a hundred days of savage slaughter. When former Haitian President, Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from power and fled to the Central African Republic, Koinange flew to Bangui, where he secured the first exclusive interview with the former leader.
In 2003 Koinange spent three months reporting from Liberia as the violent civil war culminated in the forced abdication of then president, Charles Taylor. Koinange also covered US President, George W. Bush’s Africa tour, the first by a sitting US Republican President.
During 2002 Koinange reported for CNN on the U.S. coalition troop deployments in the global war on terror in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, the Miss World riots in Nigeria, the attempted coup and evacuation of French and American civilians in the Ivory Coast, as well as the ensuing peace talks, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He also reported on Sierra Leone's first presidential elections following a decade of civil war.
Prior to joining CNN, Koinange worked for Reuters Television from 1995 to 2001, covering the majority of the African continent. In 1999, he was promoted to chief producer for the Southern African region, where he was responsible for news coverage in 15 African countries.
He reported on numerous stories including the election of Thabo Mbeki in 2000 and the assassination of President Kabila in Kinshasa in 2001. Before being appointed to this position, he was senior producer for West Africa, where he oversaw television coverage for 24 nations and documented the vast changes in Nigeria following the death of Sanni Abacha. In 1995, Koinange joined Reuters Television as a producer for the Eastern and Central African region where he covered the Ethiopian Airlines hijacking in 1996, the overthrow of Mobutu by Kabila and the subsequent creation of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997.
Previously Koinange spent a year as an associate producer for NBC News in New York in 1994, where he worked as an overnight producer for the Today Show. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a reporter/associate producer for the Medical News Network. In 1991, Koinange began his career as a desk assistant/off air reporter, for ABC News in New York, where he worked on the U.S. and international desks.
In 2002, Koinange’s coverage of the crisis in Liberia earned him second runner-up in the Headliner Awards in the USA. In 1999, Koinange was a finalist in the Prix Bayeux for his coverage of the war in Sierra Leone.
He is also a panellist on the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award judging committee and a regular Masters of Ceremonies for the event.
Koinange is Kenyan and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from New York University.
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CNN
Jeff Koinange is CNN's Africa correspondent working bureaus in Johannesburg and Lagos, as well as with the network's partners across the continent. In this position, Koinange leads CNN's coverage of Africa.
Koinange was previously the bureau chief in Lagos, where he was responsible for coordinating all news output from West Africa and also for covering events from throughout the rest of the African continent. Since Joining CNN in 2001, he has reported on news events throughout Africa and the Middle East for the international news network.
One of the major stories that Koinange has covered is the post-war insurgency, reconstruction and the historic 2005 elections in Iraq. He was also in strife-torn Darfur in Western Sudan for the visits of US Secretary of State, Colin Powell and UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan in 2004.
News events covered by Koinange in 2004 included the announcement in Morocco by the world football authority, FIFA that South Africa would be the continent’s first host of the World Cup. Koinange also spent a month in Rwanda during the commemoration of the country’s ten-year anniversary of the genocide that killed up to a million people in a hundred days of savage slaughter. When former Haitian President, Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from power and fled to the Central African Republic, Koinange flew to Bangui, where he secured the first exclusive interview with the former leader.
In 2003 Koinange spent three months reporting from Liberia as the violent civil war culminated in the forced abdication of then president, Charles Taylor. Koinange also covered US President, George W. Bush’s Africa tour, the first by a sitting US Republican President.
During 2002 Koinange reported for CNN on the U.S. coalition troop deployments in the global war on terror in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, the Miss World riots in Nigeria, the attempted coup and evacuation of French and American civilians in the Ivory Coast, as well as the ensuing peace talks, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He also reported on Sierra Leone's first presidential elections following a decade of civil war.
Prior to joining CNN, Koinange worked for Reuters Television from 1995 to 2001, covering the majority of the African continent. In 1999, he was promoted to chief producer for the Southern African region, where he was responsible for news coverage in 15 African countries.
He reported on numerous stories including the election of Thabo Mbeki in 2000 and the assassination of President Kabila in Kinshasa in 2001. Before being appointed to this position, he was senior producer for West Africa, where he oversaw television coverage for 24 nations and documented the vast changes in Nigeria following the death of Sanni Abacha. In 1995, Koinange joined Reuters Television as a producer for the Eastern and Central African region where he covered the Ethiopian Airlines hijacking in 1996, the overthrow of Mobutu by Kabila and the subsequent creation of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997.
Previously Koinange spent a year as an associate producer for NBC News in New York in 1994, where he worked as an overnight producer for the Today Show. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a reporter/associate producer for the Medical News Network. In 1991, Koinange began his career as a desk assistant/off air reporter, for ABC News in New York, where he worked on the U.S. and international desks.
In 2002, Koinange’s coverage of the crisis in Liberia earned him second runner-up in the Headliner Awards in the USA. In 1999, Koinange was a finalist in the Prix Bayeux for his coverage of the war in Sierra Leone.
He is also a panellist on the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award judging committee and a regular Masters of Ceremonies for the event.
Koinange is Kenyan and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from New York University.
source:
CNN