Tristan McConnell is GlobalPost's senior correspondent for Africa and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
He has lived and worked in Africa since 2004 and is also a correspondent for The Times of London and Monocle.
McConnell has written for magazines including the Columbia Journalism Review, London Review of Books, The Nation, New Statesman, New York, Prospect and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His reporting has won the Diageo journalism award and been recognised by the Kurt Schork Awards.
Kenya’s government has been widely criticized for 'non-cooperation' with prosecutors.
For example, the interim president isn't actually eligible to run for president.
As Zambia’s president dies in office, protesters in Burkina Faso are trying to stop their own leader from doing the same.
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Anthropologists argue that authorities and medical workers won't stop Ebola until they do more to help West Africans mourn.
Those most responsible for the suffering are staying at luxury hotels, unable to agree during daytime negotiations but happy to mingle in the bar at night. Western supporters are getting fed up.
Brutal, unforgiving violence has touched everyone in Malakal, a town that's seen the worst of South Sudan's civil war.
It's relatively safe in Pathai, so tens of thousands of South Sudanese are trying to get there.
'When it started happening, all the memories of Srebrenica, all the faces, came back to me.'
President Obama says US strategy against terrorism in Somalia offers a model for taking on the Islamic State.