Jina Moore

The World

Jina Moore

Jina Moore is the Global Women's Rights reporter for BuzzFeed News, based in Nairobi. Before joining BuzzFeed, she spent nearly a decade as an Africa correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Al Jazeera America, The Atlantic, Salon and others, and she was a senior nonfiction editor at Guernica Magazine. She's won many awards for her human rights reporting, which has taken her to nearly 25 countries.


The World

Congo rebel leader seized in Rwanda

Laurent Nkunda is awaiting extradition

The World

Rwanda not troubled by Congo rumblings

The World

Rwanda’s genocide — 15 years later

The World

Rwanda’s genocide — 15 years later

Kansiime Anne

East Africa’s ‘Queen of Comedy’ is as progressive as she is funny

Arts
Deepa Desoja

‘Women … I think we’re our own worst enemies’ when it comes to design

Business

Kenyan women are creating beautiful clothes, though Kenyan women seem unsure about buying them. But women in the country’s burgeoning fashion business say they’re not giving up.

A worker arranges a copy of the Business Daily newspaper at a printing press plant on the outskirts of Nairobi.

What to do when the airwaves and papers tell these women they’re inferior — or worse?

Culture

Woman-bashing seems to be a popular sport on Kenyan talk radio and weekend lifestyle sections. Buzzfeed’s Jina Moore looks at the consequences.

Residents who were in an Ebola quarantine area complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials, in West Point, Monrovia, on August 23, 2014.

It’s not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines

Health

The issue of quarantine is not only a hot-button topic in the US: Officials in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, for instance, have grappled with the issue for months. And that is why some are now looking to Liberia to draw upon lessons learned from an evolved quarantine policy.

Soldiers check people traveling in Bomi County, in the northwestern portion of Liberia, on August 11, 2014.

Fear in Liberia turns violent as a mob attacks an Ebola clinic

Health

More than a dozen Ebola patients in Liberia have gone missing after a mob attacked and looted a Monrovia-area health facility. Now, the Liberian government fears that infected individuals are returning to their communities, where they risk spreading the virus.

Nigerian parents

Nigeria’s kidnapped girls spur public anger, vigils and a Paris summit

Conflict & Justice

This weekend, there were competing images over whether Nigeria’s government is serious about fighting Boko Haram and rescuing the girls who were kidnapped. Nigeria’s president cancelled his only planned trip to the scene of the kidnapping, but then attended a summit in Paris where he and neighboring leaders pledged to work together.This weekend, there were competing images over whether Nigeria’s government is serious about fighting Boko Haram and rescuing the girls who were kidnapped. Nigeria’s president cancelled his only planned trip to the scene of the kidnapping, but then attended a summit in Paris where he and neighboring leaders pledged to work together.