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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm
In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
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New ICIJ Members
By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More
Catherine Gicheru, Kenya, is the chief of the Mombasa bureau of The Nation group of newspapers.
Catherine Gicheru, Kenya
She has distinguished herself writing dispassionate, critical stories of the government of President Daniel arap Moi. In 1992, her tough, independent reporting was honored with a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, which cited her exposé on the involvement of senior government officials in the embezzlement of funds from the country’s national pension fund. Gicheru also investigated the involvement of Kenyan government officials in the assassination of a local political figure. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 1989.
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