Kenyans Tap Sun to Make Dirty Water Sparkle

Article by Sarah Stuteville featured on Women's eNews

CLP Radio Series Wins Edward R. Murrow Award

Jessica Partnow's radio series Life on the Duwamish, which aired on Seattle's KUOW in September 2007 received the 2008 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for News Series from the Radio and Television News Directors Association.

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New Multimedia Blogs at clpmag.org/eastafrica
Visit our East Africa Project Page for the latest from Alex Stonehill and Sarah Stuteville. Sarah visited the slums of Kenya in the wake of post-election violence to bring you Being Typical, from Nairobi's Kibera and The Most Dangerous Men in Kenya, from Kisumu's Manyatta. Alex ran with the champs in Ethiopia and lived to tell about it in his photo slideshow Running on Hope. His blog on the coming World Water Crisis draws on what he's learned reporting on water over the past four months. More »

Power Politics Trump Democracy in US-Backed Ethiopia

Article by Alex Stonehill and Sarah Stuteville featured in the Indypendent

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Dawn in the Merkato breaks over a tangle of streets jammed with shouting hawkers and towering pyramids of ripe produce from Ethiopia’s fertile countryside. Today it is a popular destination for sunburnt foreign tourists, expensive cameras poised to capture lively scenes from one of Africa’s largest open-air markets.

Few of them, unloading from tour buses today, know that less then three years ago these bustling streets were stained with the blood of murdered citizens who had flooded into the center of Ethiopia’s capital city to protest the contested re-election of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. 

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More to Come: Support the CLP's East Africa Project

CLP journalists are headed home to Seattle this month, but we have got more reporting coming your way: video and radio stories will take you from the tumultuous shores of Lake Victoria to a village in rural Kenya where elephants have humans feeling endangered.

Later on in the summer we'll be bringing you behind-the-scenes reporting - and everything that didn't make it past the editors' red pens.

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